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@zingbretsen @freemo Also, I think we need to include #toyprogrammingchallenge hashtag in the conversational posts of they are lost on other instances

@zingbretsen @freemo

I do like the solution, and to my eye the code looks great. I could not get it to compile on :

https://rextester.com/l/python3_online_compiler

I might be doing something wrong though.

@freemo the numbers are good, but I can't follow the screen grabs on my phone. Maybe more readable on the computer screen. Will see later.

@zingbretsen @freemo

How about something like this:

def func(x):
if x % 5 == 1:
return (x - 1) / 5 * 4
return 0

x = 6
while True:
if func(func(func(func(func(x))))):
break
x += 5

print(x)

@zingbretsen @freemo did you post it somewhere?

@remulacfrommars you should donate a pint, they'll tell you what it is

@freemo surely it should be doable, as I proved out the result using 'bc' on the command line.

My work friend tried it in his head while doing a run the other day, and came up with a result far larger than appropriate.

Another friend solved it as a function that is nested 5 deep, and at the bottom it takes 5x as a starter.

f(f(f(f(f(5x)))))
With the function being f(i) {5/4 * i + 1}... Something like that. I think there was more to it than that, but once you found the right value for x it should all balance out. In that case I think you still had to figure out the x such that 5/4 x was equally divisible by 5. I guess that would still require some brute force testing.

@Ghosty occasionally something like midnight commander might be useful for side by side stuff, but meld usually does that for what I need.

#toyprogrammingchallenge #python #lisp #c #c++ #cpp #coding #programming

Ready for the next challenge?

"5 Guys and a Bunch of Coconuts"

Here is a link to the text description of the problem.

https://git.qoto.org/Absinthe/coconuts/blob/master/coconuts.txt

That link is to the repo, and my solution is in it as well.

@Ghosty occasionally I will launch dolphin or nautilus because you to allows me to run a program by its association. However gnu-open or kde-open5 seems to handle such things. But I do like meld for directory comparisons. Does that count?

@zingbretsen I'm on qoto.org does that count?

@BradleySmall @Absinthe

#python3 #python2 #programming #c #c++ #lisp #java

Might also be interested in this.