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Re:Ask HN: How to develop logical skills? by Groxx on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:40PM (#1997789)
http://projecteuler.net/

If you don't understand how to solve a problem, there's always Google to "cheat". The discussions are pretty often very enlightening, and have some wild solutions.

In more abstract means... number theory is handy, and I don't know what else you'd be interested in, the question is fairly vague. Read lots of puzzle books?

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Re:Ask HN: How to develop logical skills? by lazyfunctor on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:10PM (#1997874)
I second that. Also you may find this helpful http://projecteureka.org
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Re:Ask HN: How to develop logical skills? by tgandrews on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:25PM (#1997918)
Project Euler is great as a programming problem when trying to improve your solutions for speed.

Also, as someone who has not touched fundamental maths in 5 years it was also a good refresher; having to think about prime numbers etc again.

A good tip I have found is to use a language that can nicely manipulate longs saving you much overhead, I chose Python because it also has some nice maths libraries.

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