A place to air possible concerns or difficulties in understanding ProjectEuler problems. This forum is not meant to publish solutions. This forum is NOT meant to discuss solution methods or giving hints how a problem can be solved.
Forum rules
As your posts will be visible to the general public you are requested to be thoughtful in not posting anything that might explicitly give away how to solve a particular problem.
This forum is NOT meant to discuss solution methods for a problem.
In particular don't post any code fragments or results.
Don't start begging others to give partial answers to problems
Don't ask for hints how to solve a problem
Don't start a new topic for a problem if there already exists one
hk wrote:In fact I'm thinking people shouldn't be so nitpickingish about this problem.
Sorry, I honestly wasn't trying to nitpick - I wouldn't have understood the problem without reading the forum, and as far more trivial wording issues have been updated in the past I thought it was worth the 2 minutes to fix - but people can always read the forum if they're confused. Doesn't affect me now anyway having solved it
hk wrote:In fact I'm thinking people shouldn't be so nitpickingish about this problem.
I must say I am disappointed getting such a reaction, whilst only trying to help PE out on some spelling and grammar errors I noticed. To support you, however, I found the wording of the problem clear enough from the start.
Summarizing, I agree with you that people should read better, but in my opinion, this has nothing to do with spelling errors.
What the point is that in the title we had chosen for a certain spelling while the hyperlink was to a text that used another spelling (because it was a text in English). I think it quite normal that in a hyperlink you use the title of the page you are referring to. That does not mean that you can prefer another spelling.
So I don't see why the spelling used in this way should be consistent. (so no spelling error in my opnion).
War ruins the life and health of untold numbers of innocent children.
I just wanna clarify something about the problem..
*Deleted the content so as not to give away the solution*
However, when so many people have hit the target and one marksman misses ten times on the run, he/she can hardly shoot his/her own foot and conclude that because the gun is working properly the fault must lie in the target.
Now, since my answer is incorrect I understand am not doing something right. Can someone plz pointout the flaw in my method?
UPDATE: Edited my post since I found the mistake on my own and realized I was giving away most of the solution. Sorry about that.
Last edited by MuthuVeerappanR on Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:46 am, edited 2 times in total.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
That's not asking for a clarification, that's posting information that may spoil the problem for others. You'd best edit most of that information out of your post ASAP.
Logically, if you have calculated that a particular strategy does better than the sample case, then your method of calculating the expected number for that strategy is incorrect, regardless of whether or not the strategy is optimal.
Hi, I was just wondering if someone could confirm these values for small input. E(1) = 1, E(2) = 55/24, and E(3) = 1981/528. Let me know if this violates the forum rules, as this is my first time posting on here.
