Talk:24 game

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Revision as of 20:57, 31 October 2009 by rosettacode>Paddy3118 (→‎Purpose: We're a little light on small games.)

Purpose

What's the theoretical or practical interest in this task? I'd be interested in a program that enumerated all the 4-tuples that have solutions or determined whether a given 4-tuple had a solution, but we've already got tasks for getting input from the user, parsing arithmetic expressions, and so on. —Underscore 19:22, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Umm,
  1. Playing the game.
  2. We have a gazillion sorts for example, (some are very impractical); so we can stand some repetition.
  3. We don't have many games, (of any description). Some site grazers might be attracted just by the word 'game'.
  4. The input checking is novel.
  5. The task is more than the some of its parts! (We have tasks covering most statement types, and it would not make sense to use that as a reason for not doing any composite task).
  6. Prelude to possibly another task to solve the game.
(I don't like to write a task until I have a solution and so can better gauge its suitability, and so write a better task description). --Paddy3118 20:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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