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• Post #2149814

  I've been getting back into #ProjectEuler lately, and I will be posting short spoiler-free reviews of some of the problems in the hope that they will make you interested enough to try them yourself.

• Post #2149813

  Spoiler-free review of #ProjectEuler problem 539 (Odd Elimination): I really liked this one, it's not too difficult but a lot of fun to work out on pen and paper. You can *almost* solve it entirely without a computer but the numbers get a bit large. I solved it on my phone (might be the first one I did without a computer?) and accidentally called the solution while trying to copy it out. Recommended: https://projecteuler.net/problem=539

• Post #2149811

  Spoiler-free review of #ProjectEuler problem 772 (Balanceable k-bounded partitions): not my favorite problem; it's easy for all the wrong reasons and I was almost a bit upset when I saw the green checkmark. https://projecteuler.net/problem=772

• Post #2149810

  Spoiler-free review of #ProjectEuler problem 153 (Investigating Gaussian Integers): this is a nice medium-difficulty problem. You don't need to know much theory (the things I remembered from my elementary number theory course 9 years ago were certainly sufficient, or you can read the "basic definitions" section of the Wikipedia article without getting any spoilers), but there are some nice insights to be figured out. Recommended: https://projecteuler.net/problem=153

• Post #2149809

  Spoiler-free review of #ProjectEuler problem 349 (Langton's Ant). I enjoyed this easy problem very much. Do not, under any circumstances, search the internet for the term "Langton's Ant" or you will be spoiled and the problem will be ruined for you! Recommended: https://projecteuler.net/problem=349

• Post #2149808

  Spoiler-free review of #ProjectEuler problem 757 (Stealthy Numbers): this is a nice little problem with a nice solution. It made me feel quite stupid because it took me a while to solve it despite its difficulty rating of 3/39. I don't really understand these difficulty ratings. I know they are computed from the solve statistics, so they are "objective", but I just cannot see how 349 is an 11/39 if 757 is a 3/39. Recommended: https://projecteuler.net/problem=757

• Post #2149807

  I like short stories because they allow you to do interesting things, thematically and linguistically, that would not work at the scale of a novel. The short story collection 'Furies' (2023) has many great examples of this. I particularly enjoyed 'Wench' by Kristy Logan. Highly recommended if you can get your hands on the book!