For the last two weeks I am addicted to The Code. Those, who successfully passed pre-selection, were offered to download a PDF file (you need the passwords from the pre-selection to open it) with even more puzzles.
Here is another one I liked:
A Mathematician's Apology
ABC = A3 + B3 + C3
CDE = C3 + D3 + E3
CDA = C3 + D3 + A3
FED = F3 + E3 + D3
A⋅100 + A⋅10 + D = ?
Now, if you Google for "A Mathematician's Apology", you will come to the following link, which is a book with the same title by Hardy. Section 15 reveals all the solutions for the equation:
x⋅100 + y⋅10 + z = x3 + y3 + z3
where x∈{1..9}, y,z∈{0..9}. They are (1,5,3), (3,7,0), (3,7,1) and (4,0,7).
The pattern is easy to spot now:
(A,B,C) = (1,5,3)
(C,D,E) = (3,7,0)
(C,D,A) = (3,7,1)
(F,E,D) = (4,0,7)
and A⋅100 + A⋅10 + D = 117
However, if (like me) "Google search" isn't (always) an obvious option, the following Java code:
public class Code {
public static int func(int a, int b, int c) {
return a*100 + b*10 + c - a*a*a - b*b*b - c*c*c;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
for (int a = 1; a < 10; a++) {
for (int b = 0; b < 10; b++) {
for (int c = 0; c < 10; c++) {
if (func(a,b,c) == 0) {
System.out.println("("+a+","+b+","+c+")");
}
}
}
}
}
}
will also return (1,5,3), (3,7,0), (3,7,1) and (4,0,7).
Code Project article https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/437190/The-Code-Part
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