Real life problems :)

[Moneo]

Neo,
Not in my opinion. The guys seem to be getting a good workout with Nathan's version. If I find the time, I still may take a crack at it myself.
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[ToohTooh]

Hello, Neo.

My recent algorithm calculates

• Change(7592; {1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31})

in about 1 second on my experimental P350. It performs no sifting, though. If I were asked, it could have gone for one :-D. Thought you would be interested.

When trying it out, apart from redefining

Code:

myLimit

for redimensioning for the new query, don't forget to redimension

Code:

DIM bld(1024) AS buildTAG

under Change() to something like 8192 also.

And, yes: Post your challenge. If they are close to my area of interest and profession, I, myself, would be glad to participate.

Notice (this is not the best place to post this, but...): I had no way to post an entry to your character recognization challenge. A reasonable one would involve AI, statistics, and stuff like that. This is too much luxury for BASIC, I suppose. I think you told you wrote it in BASIC. Can we take a look at it? Thanks in advance.

[Neo]

Neo,
Not in my opinion. The guys seem to be getting a good workout with Nathan's version. If I find the time, I still may take a crack at it myself.

You say so... 8) (*glad I don't have to translate 10 pages of exercises...* :lol
Maybe I'll take a look at it myself again, after all, it was a year ago...

Notice (this is not the best place to post this, but...): I had no way to post an entry to your character recognization challenge. A reasonable one would involve AI, statistics, and stuff like that. This is too much luxury for BASIC, I suppose. I think you told you wrote it in BASIC. Can we take a look at it? Thanks in advance.

Hello ToohTooh,

That 1 second to calculate the problem is great! Then you have 10 points for that test run if you were on the NIO *Looks up test run files* Ah, there's no copy on the internet
Anyway, I'm interested in how you calculated the answer so quickly, because even our C++ version took ages...

About the character recognition, I suggest you read the topic again It isn't writing an OCR, it's just solving some exercises. The exercises are rather simple to do in QB, as in the exercise description, there's also told how you can tackle the problem. If the problem was to write an OCR, this problem would have been too much in any programming language.
You can always take a look at my code if you're interested though. Just PM me and I'll send them to you.



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