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  • Code Golf: Countdown Number Game

    - by Noldorin
    Challenge Here is the task, inspired by the well-known British TV game show Countdown. The challenge should be pretty clear even without any knowledge of the game, but feel free to ask for clarifications. And if you fancy seeing a clip of this game in action, check out this YouTube clip. It features the wonderful late Richard Whitely in 1997. You are given 6 numbers, chosen at random from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100}, and a random target number between 100 and 999. The aim is to make use the six given numbers and the four common arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division; all over the rational numbers) to generate the target - or as close as possible either side. Each number may only be used once at most, while each arithmetic operator may be used any number of times (including zero.) Note that it does not matter how many numbers are used. Write a function that takes the target number and set of 6 numbers (can be represented as list/collection/array/sequence) and returns the solution in any standard numerical notation (e.g. infix, prefix, postfix). The function must always return the closest-possible result to the target, and must run in at most 1 minute on a standard PC. Note that in the case where more than one solution exists, any single solution is sufficient. Examples: {50, 100, 4, 2, 2, 4}, target 203 e.g. 100 * 2 + 2 + (4 / 4) e.g. (100 + 50) * 4 * 2 / (4 + 2) {25, 4, 9, 2, 3, 10}, target 465 e.g. (25 + 10 - 4) * (9 * 2 - 3) {9, 8, 10, 5, 9, 7), target 241 e.g. ((10 + 9) * 9 * 7) + 8) / 5 Rules Other than mentioned in the problem statement, there are no further restrictions. You may write the function in any standard language (standard I/O is not necessary). The aim as always is to solve the task with the smallest number of characters of code. Saying that, I may not simply accept the answer with the shortest code. I'll also be looking at elegance of the code and time complexity of the algorithm! My Solution I'm attempting an F# solution when I find the free time - will post it here when I have something! Format Please post all answers in the following format for the purpose of easy comparison: Language Number of characters: ??? Fully obfuscated function: (code here) Clear (ideally commented) function: (code here) Any notes on the algorithm/clever shortcuts it takes.

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  • complex arguments for function

    - by myPost1
    My task is to create function funCall taking four arguments : pointer for 2d array of ints that stores pairs of numbers variable int maintaining number of numbers in 2d array pointer for table of pointers to functions int variable storing info about number of pointers to functions I was thinking about something like this : typedef int(*funPtr)(int, int); funPtr arrayOfFuncPtrs[]; void funCall( *int[][]k, int a, *funPtr z, int b); { }

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  • Any alternatives to signedCMS.decode on windows?

    - by JL
    Unfortunately .net functionality using cryptoAPI does not work reliably enough for the task I have. Is there a direct equivalent way for me to decode a signedCMS on windows, using anything other than signedCMS.decode cryptoAPI functionality or CNG. Thanks

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  • Threadpool design question

    - by ZeroVector
    I have a design question. I want some feedback to know if a ThreadPool is appropriate for the client program I am writing. I am having a client running as a service processing database records. Each of these records contains connection information to external FTP sites [basically it is a queue of files to transfer]. A lot of them are to the same host, just moving different files. Therefore, I am grouping them together by host. I want to be able to create a new thread per host. I really don't care when the transfers finish, they just need to do all the work (or try to do) they were assigned, and then terminate once they are finished, cleaning up all resources they used in the process. I anticipate no more than 10-25 connections to be established. Once the transfer queue is empty, the program will simply wait until there are records in the queue again. Is the ThreadPool a good candidate for this or should I use a different approach? Edit: For the most part, this is the only significant custom application running on the server.

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  • Distinguish between screen timeout and power-button-press?

    - by Nick
    Hi, my app does something when the screen goes black, but I want it to only carry out that task if the screen was turned off "by itself", through a screen timeout - NOT when the user presses the power-button. Is there any way to distinguish between those two events? ACTION_SCREEN_OFF obviously fires in both cases, and I haven't found any other intents that might match what I'm looking for. Thanks for your help, Nick

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  • Picking the right language

    - by simion
    I am a student at University so my experience is limited, hence the question. If someone says to you, here is a task to code, what are you looking at in order to choose the language or paradigm in which you will do it in? Hope the question makes sense?

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  • Can I set svn properties through ankhsvn?

    - by grungean
    I am using ankhsvn with VS2008. I am using a free repo hosting on the web. I am not using a svn client for this repo, but managing everything with ankhsvn (including adding solution file and project files to the new repo). I want to add the svn:needs-lock preperty to these files. I wonder if I can do this task using ankhsvn, or if I need to get another svn client for this purpose.

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  • project plan scheduling...

    - by Muhammad Adnan
    I am looking for some algorithm/library to get functionality like microsoft project caters for scheduling tasks dates as if we change any task date then its parent, predecessors and successors dates get effected. is there any help i can get... in any way.. Thanks,

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  • I have a 18MB MySQL table backup. How can I restore such a large SQL file?

    - by Henryz
    I use a Wordpress plugin called 'Shopp'. It stores product images in the database rather than the filesystem as standard, I didn't think anything of this until now. I have to move server, and so I made a backup, but restoring the backup is proving a horrible task. I need to restore one table called wp_shopp_assets which is 18MB. Any advice is hugely appreciated. Thanks, Henry.

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  • Generate table schema inspecting Excel(CSV) and import data

    - by Frank Malina
    How would I go around creating a MYSQL table schema inspecting an Excel(or CSV) file. Are there any ready Python libraries for the task? Column headers would be sanitized to column names. Datatype would be estimated based on the contents of the spreadsheet column. When done, data would be loaded to the table. I have an Excel file of ~200 columns that I want to start normalizing.

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  • Action Script 3 / Flex builder 3 : How to make a diagram.

    - by JePz
    Hi, I want to make a diagram with either flash CS4 or flex builder 3, don't know with one would be the best for the job. More about the task: I want to send in values external to the swf file. The swf-file takes the vaules and makes a diagram of it using x and y values. Any advise or tips of where i can make this is much appreciated! Thanks in advance! jesper

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  • LINQ nested joins

    - by ace
    Im trying to convert a SQL join to LINQ. I need some help in getting the nested join working in LINQ. This is my SQL query, Ive cut it short just to show the nested join in SQL: LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.TaskCommentRecipient RIGHT OUTER JOIN dbo.TaskComment ON dbo.TaskCommentRecipient.TaskCommentID = dbo.TaskComment.TaskCommentID ON dbo.Task.Taskid = dbo.TaskComment.TaskCommentTaskId

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  • url redirection

    - by psdesai
    Hi, I need some help with regards to the url redirection. Here is the problem. We have a website with a section as http://www.site.com/sectionxxx/index.jsp we have another domain http://www.sectionxxx.com. The task is to forward any request comming for the http://www.sectionxxx.com; direct to http://www.site.com/sectionxxx/index.jsp. Any idea? P

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  • Good tool to convert sourcecode to PDF?

    - by Toad
    I've a daunting task of getting familiair and possibly re-architecting large pieces of old source code. I was hoping there would be a nice tool to convert php (in my case), but let's make it more general: any language to PDF, for offline browsing on a Kindle or Ipad Would be ideal if it would create indexes / hyperlinks automatically. So function calls can be easily browsed into

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  • Reflection: get Static method from the parent class.

    - by jitm
    Hello, I have task to get static method using reflection like this : myType.GetMethod("MyMethod",BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod); In case if class contains MyMethod all works correctly, but in case if parent class contains MyMethod I receive null :(. How can I call static method from the parent using reflection like code that I describe above? Thanks.

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