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Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question

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Tim Rentsch wrote:
> 
> pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> > divya bisht wrote:
> >>
> >> Toughest Math Statement Question
> >> (Source : http://hardest-puzzle.blogspot.com/2011/12/toughest-math-statement-question.html
> >> )
> >>
> >> I am thinking of a 6-digit number. The sum of the digits is 43.
> >>
> >> And only two of the following three statements about the number are
> >> true:
> >>
> >> (1) it's a square number,
> >> (2) it's a cube number, and
> >> (3) the number is under 500000.
> >
> > [snip program -- 114 lines of code, 24 lines of comments]
> 
> Seems like a rather long program for the problem...  how
> about this instead?
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int digit_sum_of_equals( unsigned number, unsigned total );

The programs would have been more portable
if we both had used long unsigned instead of unsigned.

-- 
pete

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Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-07 22:03 -0500
  Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-26 10:11 -0800
    Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-27 17:06 -0500
    Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-27 18:30 -0500
      Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-31 06:19 -0800
        Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2012-03-08 22:26 +0000
      Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-31 22:28 -0800
        Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-02-01 18:47 -0500
          Re: [Hardest Maths Statement Puzzle] Toughest Math Statement Question Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-08 12:24 -0800

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