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LUG Channel Puzzles!

Spring 2015 Coding Puzzles

You have 90 minutes to complete as many of the following puzzles as you can. You are awarded 1 point for each program which comes to the correct answer (no hardcoding answers!).

Prize

The individual(s) with the most points will be awarded their nick in the channel topic for one week (___. ____. and ____ are the coding puzzle champions!)

Puzzles

  • Given a user-input amount of money (ie. $53.17), determine how many quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies it would take to reach that amount, using quarters first (the most quarters), then dimes, then nickels, then pennies.
  • Given any string, find all the different variations of the letters in the string (can have duplicates, but it's better if not). (Bonus: find the ones that are actual words)
  • Write a program that sorts a list of 20 numbers (can be hard coded or random) (you can't hard-code the sorted part, though. Sorry :/)
  • Write a program that translates english text to pig latin (Pig Latin takes the first consonant (or consonant cluster) of an English word, moves it to the end of the word and suffixes an ay, or if a word begins with a vowel you just add way to the end.) (bonus points for translating back from piglatin to english)
  • Find the sum of all even numbers in the fibonacci sequence below 4,000,000. [ https://projecteuler.net/problem=2 ]
  • Find the largest palindromic number made from the product of two 3-digit numbers. [ https://projecteuler.net/problem=4 ]
  • Starting at the top left of a 2x2 grid, and only being able to move to the right and down, there are exactly 6 routes to the bottom right corner. How many such routes are there through a 20x20 grid?[ https://projecteuler.net/problem=15 ]
  • What is the millionth lexicographic permutation of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9? [ https://projecteuler.net/problem=24 ]
  • Which prime, below one-million, can be written as the sum of the most consecutive primes? [ https://projecteuler.net/problem=50 ]
  • Find the thirteen adjacent digits in the 1000-digit number that have the greatest product. What is the value of this product? [ https://projecteuler.net/problem=8 ]

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  • Work out the sum of the first ten digits of the sum of the following one-hundred 50-digit numbers. [ https://projecteuler.net/problem=13 ]

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Leaderboards (unofficial scores)

Nick Score
a_magical_me 9
chekkaa 7
chobe 5
chriconn 1
deanj 9
farryr 2
leelbran 3
lucyw 1
shirgan 4
tschuy 8

Coding Puzzles Rules

This is a set of rules for LUG Coding Puzzles.

Rules

You have X hours to complete the following puzzles. The timeframe is specified when the puzzles are announced. To submit a completed puzzle you must link to your code (hosted on your own site, github, gist, pastebin, whichever you prefer) and private message pop on irc.freenode.net; for example [pop: Here's my solution to #1 <pastebin url>].

Please do not cheat.

You can use whichever langauge you prefer. Please note the testing section below if you plan on doing something crazy like writing your solution in

Testing

All testing will happen on an x86 Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu VagrantBox.

Scoring

Scores will be posted on the nearest avaliable whiteboard as well as in the gist which holds a given term's puzzles. The scores will be updated in as close to real time on the whiteboard as well as on the gist.

24 hours after the competition is completed the official winner(s) will be anounced and given their prize.

Winning

To win your solution will be graded exclusively on whether or not you produced a correct answer.

You are awarded one point for each correct answer.

The award for a given coding puzzles challange day will be stated in the challange document (pastebin, gist, etc).

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weather --> whether (nit pick, sorry! )

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