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261 points swatson741 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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BeetleB ◴[12 Nov 25 20:40 UTC] No.45906315[source]▶
Ha! I did a lot of these around 2007-2008. I solved the first 100 or so ones. Solving these were more fun than any other programming problems site I've seen. I quit it when I realized I was spending 4+ hours per problem - I couldn't justify the time.

Beyond a certain point, most required some knowledge of elementary number theory.

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1. goalieca ◴[12 Nov 25 21:25 UTC] No.45906954[source]▶
Same timeline for me! This was my great procrastination side quest during grad school. I learned haskell and a bit of ocaml working on these. Functional languages are extremely well suited to these kinds of problems.