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Re:Project Euler by glouwbug on Monday October 14, 2024 @06:34PM (#41842875)
But isn’t it mathematical computing? I feel like leetcode DSA is closer to your average HN user
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Re:Project Euler by tocs3 on Monday October 14, 2024 @08:21PM (#41843670)
Has here been any work done to find out about the average HN user? It seems like it would be a hard thing to do but it might be interesting to see. I do not even know what sort of metrics would be useful to measure.
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Re:Project Euler by n4r9 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:47AM (#41849780)
There's certainly a strong element of computational mathematics. A lot of the problems deal with things like Mersenne Primes or Collatz sequences. On the other hand, there are problems like "Maximum Path Sum" which definitely make use of DSA-style tricks (https://projecteuler.net/problem=67).
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