A Little Brainteaser
 

Not sure if this is better suited here or elsewhere...

www.pythonchallenge.com

Re: A Little Brainteaser
 

As if I didn't have enough work to do today, now my brains going round trying to solve those. :D Good find though, cheers Gareth

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Got to



Now stuck

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Finished that one, just on the next one now.

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Thing is I've done them so far without using code .....

Re: A Little Brainteaser
 

:disturbd:

You could be there a while with that one then. (I'm cheating and using Java)

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if only was good in math I would be able to figure this out. ...

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I've got to level 4 (I think) but searching for a small letter with 3 big ones either side will take me ages and I don't know code.

I did the previous one using find and replace.

I couldnt even do the first one :D (I had to cheat and look up the answer)

I hope you guys like how I find good things and all...... They do on another VBB site im on and said keep it up :)

Take a look dues: www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=6400&styleid=1

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That has to be one of the oldest necroposts. :nono:

Re: A Little Brainteaser
 

Not a Python coder but for regex

s/[A-Z]{3}([a-z])[A-Z]{3}/\1/

If the last 3 letters will be the same as the first then you can use a back reference.

s/([A-Z]{3})([a-z])\1/\2/

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I have no idea how he even dug this thread up, it’s not especially remarkable and it doesn’t top any way of listing threads (because it’s old, but nowhere near oldest, so you wouldn’t see it even if you sorted threads oldest first).