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"5 Guys and a Bunch of Coconuts"
Here is a link to the text description of the problem.
https://git.qoto.org/Absinthe/coconuts/blob/master/coconuts.txt
That link is to the repo, and my solution is in it as well.
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I decided to take a stand at finding this solution mathematically without the brute Force approach applied in the source. I want to solve for the answer (the most efficient answer).
So far I framed the question mathematically and reduced. All I need to do is find the smallest value of T_R that produces Integer solutions for the following 5 equations and I will have a solution... I'll be finished soon hopefully.
@freemo surely it should be doable, as I proved out the result using 'bc' on the command line.
My work friend tried it in his head while doing a run the other day, and came up with a result far larger than appropriate.
Another friend solved it as a function that is nested 5 deep, and at the bottom it takes 5x as a starter.
f(f(f(f(f(5x)))))
With the function being f(i) {5/4 * i + 1}... Something like that. I think there was more to it than that, but once you found the right value for x it should all balance out. In that case I think you still had to figure out the x such that 5/4 x was equally divisible by 5. I guess that would still require some brute force testing.
How about something like this:
def func(x):
if x % 5 == 1:
return (x - 1) / 5 * 4
return 0
x = 6
while True:
if func(func(func(func(func(x))))):
break
x += 5
print(x)
@zingbretsen @freemo did you post it somewhere?