Well, the New Year catering will take over now.
Time to buy more jelly.
Thanks for showing how I was correct and that your were wrong.
Meaning, with all that food lined up, she knew there was plenty and so asked for her friend to come. There's no "thus". Comprehension is another of your weak points.
Good try at putting up an excuse for not putting up a solution, but nobody is buying it.
Its not really about the puzzle now, just about your creditability, or lack of it.
Lets make it a bit more challenging for the maths teacher. Lets see the other 23 solutions that foobar says there are.
Haha. I'm not going to waste my time to prove to you what my capabilities are. I don't give a hoot what you think of me, Mr Anonymous Person on the internet.
It's only sad insecure runts like Lu who care about reputation on the internet. Lu also cares about my reputation, thus he's out to discredit it at every opportunity. He's a sad little man. For some reason, he also wants to discredit my wife and impugn her reputation too. It's bizarre.
Hole Digger of the Year, was never really in any doubt.
^^^^Rubbish.
There are 12! permutations of the 12 numbers, with one of two operators between them.
^In the original puzzle there were 12 numbers and 11 spaces between those numbers into which one of 3 possible operators could be placed.
The 3 operators were '+', '-' and 'append'
The number of permutations was therefore 3^11 = 177,147
The number of possible correct solutions is apparently 24 so only 1 in 6561 permutaions is a solution. So it would take a child with a crayon, or a shakesperean chimpanzee with a 3-keyed typewriter, quite a while to stumble upon one.
^ sounds good.
The 12! gives something like 500 million combinations. Problem is, 12 factorial is the number of ways to arrange the numbers, but the order of arrangement is fixed.
Yes, 12 factorial is the correct answer to an interesting but unfortunately completely unrelated problem!
But in the festive spirit of charity I think Maanaam should be allowed a consolation point for mathematical tactical diversionary creativity!
Everyone should be allowed to be a winner at Christmas time!!
Neither a mathematician or a coder I am.
But somebody here maybe able to understand or use this:
"Sub k1() Dim arr(3) As String
Dim q As String
arr(1) = ""
arr(2) = "+"
arr(3) = "-"
For i = 1 To 3
For j = 1 To 3
For k = 1 To 3
For l = 1 To 3
For m = 1 To 3
For n = 1 To 3
For o = 1 To 3
For p = 1 To 3
Cells(1, 2) = arr(i)
Cells(1, 4) = arr(j)
Cells(1, 6) = arr(k)
Cells(1, 8) = arr(l)
Cells(1, 10) = arr(m)
Cells(1, 12) = arr(n)
Cells(1, 14) = arr(o)
Cells(1, 16) = arr(p)
q = ""
For r = 1 To 17
q = q & Cells(1, r)
Next r
s = Evaluate(q)
If s = 100 Then Debug.Print q
Next p
Next o
Next n
Next m
Next l
Next k
Next j
Next i
MsgBox "DONE"
End Sub
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/lounge...hq-puzzle.html
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
That's what I thought, you're obviously the man for the job.
On my desk by 8am or the bears get the porridge.
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