Starvin’ Marvin

It seems that Project Euler considers me only 4% genius, having solved 7 out of 178 problems. Not bad, for the little free time I’ve spent in last week solving the interesting challenges provided by this project.

I’m sure I could have solve a larger number of problems if I used the Jedi approach: “Use the brute force, Luke!” . Instead I preferred to look for the mathematical elegant approaches to the problems, even when I started by brute forcing it. I would say that the most fun part is when you solve the problem, you can and browse the forum thread (you don’t have access to this until you solve it!) and compare your solution with others. It is amazing to see people solving it in the most amazing ways, in the most amazing languages! I’ve been using C and I think I’ll keep it this way.

If you are into programming and love math, this is the right time killer for you!