Talk:24 game/Solve

Python Solution incomplete?

One problem with this solution is that it can only attempt one set of brackets. What if more than one set of brackets is necessary? --164.67.235.128 17:19, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I had thought of that, but that was after I had a solution for none or any one set of brackets, which I thought was crucial. I couldn't at the time, come up with a set of numbers where the solution needed two brackets, (I didn't try very hard - I was enjoying what I had wrote already); so just left it out. Do you know of a set of numbers that can only be solved with the use of two sets of brackets? --Paddy3118 18:57, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Gosh you're sharp. No flies on you :-)

My son just worked out the following result: (9-5)*(9-3), but putting 9,5,9,3 into the solver made it produce: 5 / 3 * 9 + 9. I don't know if a less than two bracket solution exists for every two bracket solution though? --Paddy3118 21:40, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Paddy, Python supports declarative logic, doesn't it? Just thought I'd mention it. (It'd be nice to see some more declarative logic solutions and/or tasks, too.) --Michael Mol 00:23, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately declarative logic is only supported by external libraries in Python. --Paddy3118 06:42, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

If external libraries are un-Pythonic, I suppose solutions involving antigravity are out of the question... --Michael Mol 11:16, 2 November 2009 (UTC)