<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm not really good at math, maybe I am missing something obvious ?</div><div>Maybe some pointers as of where to start studying math in order to avoid this brute force attempts, at least to help in this particular problem</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-27 21:38 GMT-02:00 Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Jean Lopes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hawu.bnu@gmail.com" target="_blank">hawu.bnu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:21.2999992370605px">The problem to be solved: <a href="https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/projecteuler/challenges/euler001" target="_blank">https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/projecteuler/challenges/euler001</a></span></blockquote></div><br></span>It's worth remembering that the Euler problems are all about math understanding; often they are designed such that brute force solutions will time out or otherwise fail.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                  <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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