unusual mathematical problems

[RobbeK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N72t7aScY   

Above ,  I think with pen & paper and the Gauß-Jordan matrix eleminations , it can be done within a "reasonable" time (probably faster than writing any code solving it ...  but FBmath (Jean Debord) has everything and more to solve these things.

You can try this one ::   (inscription on the grave of Diophantus )  :

'Here lies Diophantus , God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life, One twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife; And then yet one-seventh ere marriage begun; In five years there came a bouncing new son. Alas, the dear child of master and sage After attaining half the measure of his father's life chill fate took him. After consoling his fate by the science of numbers for four years, he ended his life.'

..  how many years

 

best Rob

[Mike Lobanovsky]

Charles,

Why don't you implement iterate or continue instead of low-level jmp fwd nxt?



Rob,

Gauß-Jordan

I beg your pardon? Gauss?

[Charles Pegge]

Mike,

In Oxygen, this will make a perpetual loop, since the iterator is stepped by next:

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for i=1 to 10
  continue for
next

PS: Cracking this grid manually is no easy task, but I do enjoy computing with fruit, though buns, bagels, doughnuts, eclairs, and sandwiches would be equally effective

[Mike Lobanovsky]

I'd opt for buns, bagels, doughnuts, eclairs, and sandwiches leaving fruit to women.