20 May
2019
20 May
'19
2:23 p.m.
On 2019-05-18 3:03 a.m., Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
As an aside: I feel certain I saw a beautiful solution presented as lecture notes and referencing a game show (around 2007). Maybe it was in Hudak's book?
Perhaps Hutton's book, chapter 9 "the countdown problem". (The game show is Countdown.) "Given a sequence of numbers and a target number, attempt to construct an expression whose value is the target, by combining one or more numbers from the sequence using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and parentheses."