The game in question is Sequence.

Simple task:
Factorise the number 233789. The solution was: 389, 601.

New number is: 23961491. The solution was: 3821, 6271.

Giveaway is over now.

Then mail me the prime factors (7892142@googlemail.com, include your username) and receive the link to the giveaway~.
I must ask that you add a little explanation on how you factorised it, since otherwise you just have taken the easy route and have used a CERTAIN online tool.

Enjoy. :3

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Bah, wrote a VB.NET console program in 20 seconds and did this. Simple enough. Originally did this in GWBASIC but due to the super-old nature of GWBASIC it refused to accept an integer the size of 23961491 so I had to resort to VB.NET :<

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I was bored so I did some highly circuitous Java to do it. I'm sure there are better ways of doing it, but I couldn't be bothered to think of them. Eratosthenes' Sieve plus some division worked well enough for me though.

13 years ago
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That solution entertained me, though. :3

13 years ago
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You have to love those old pascal programs from programming labs, I knew it would be usefull someday :D

13 years ago
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44 accepted solutions up to now.
I'll stop* the challenge once we hit 101 (prime).

13 years ago
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I'm just gonna bump this, in case anyone else wants to join. :3

13 years ago
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used calculator and time. lol. I hope i got it right!

13 years ago
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Not interested in a game but might try with a riddle later. Thanks!

13 years ago
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sent you an email. :) Thanks for creating this giveaway, bro.

13 years ago
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May just do this the old fashioned way, knowing nothing about programming as I do.

13 years ago
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Pressing news update: MATH IS HARD

13 years ago
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well, the number the OP picked doesn't help you if you try to do it by hand :P

13 years ago
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So I've gathered.

13 years ago
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Oh, it's still possible to do it by hand. You just have to put some thought into it.

13 years ago
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Math? Aw hell naw I'm outta here

13 years ago
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Just sent a solution. I've never been good in creating algorithms, but had to try :D . Unfortunately, I found a better way to do this after sending e-mail :/ .

Edit: I also sent the better solution. I think it's not a problem ;) .

13 years ago
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Neat contest. If you didn't have any crappy Python-based solutions yet, you do now.

13 years ago
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Having people do your homework to win a game? Priceless.

13 years ago
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If I wanted to have them do my "homework", I'd have given them an RSA-212 to work out.
Stop hating.

13 years ago
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Considering how simple, and the multitude of languages that could be used, doubtful.

13 years ago
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For a programmer it is a simple problem, I brute forced it in python to get the answer. My original program took about 3 seconds to run, so I optimized it a bit and now it runs in about 0.03 seconds.

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Hmm, my highly circuitous Java method takes on average 0.9322 seconds for the value 23961491. I suspect most of that is generating the list of prime numbers up to 1/2 n. >_>

13 years ago
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Giveaway ends tomorrow. Just saying.

13 years ago
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thanks:)

13 years ago
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Giveaway is over, congratulations to Papercrane!

13 years ago
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Hooray Papercane.

13 years ago
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Closed 13 years ago by no7892142.