[Tutor] [Edu-sig] collection of ACM programming problems (fwd)

[Remco Gerlich]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:35:33AM +0000, Lindsay Davies wrote:
> On 11/1/01, Remco Gerlich wrote about 'Re: [Tutor] [Edu-sig] 
> collection of ACM programming pro':
> >On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:26:28AM +0100, Remco Gerlich wrote:
> >>  Coolness! And we'll put our results on the Useless Python pages, yes? :)
> >>
> >>  This one looks pretty simple, going to hack right away :-)
> >
> >Well, the first solution I thought of (changing the primes.py program)
> >didn't work out, but it was still not that hard. Fun to do though :).
> >Keeping the source secret for the home solvers, but the answer I get is
> >859963392L.
> 
> OK, I could have got this completely wrong, but that seems -waaaay- 
> too big. I get 2385.

But 2385/53 = 45, and 53 is a prime number. So that's not even an ugly
number itself.

Ugly numbers are the numbers that have 2, 3 and 5 as their *only* prime
factors. Numbers of the form 2^x*3^y*5^z.

Made the same mistake myself at first :)

Hmm. Math. Maybe this belongs over on python-list...

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Remco Gerlich