Re: TI Programming, CRYPTO!
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Re: TI Programming, CRYPTO!
My following response is assuming you want to solve the CRYPTO, not make one:
To do this, you will probably need a computer (since recursion is a must and
the
calc does not suppot it, and it will take a while to run). you need to input
the numbers, then run them through many different functions. This would be a
simple problem if not for one rule, you can use parenthesis (at least the way I
played it.. if you dont then I will write the program for you since it will be
relatively simple). If not for the parenthesis, you could just try all of the
possibibities. This makes me think of the game 24... you get 4 numbers and try
to get 24 with them. with 24, you can put the numbers in any order, that was
another large hurdle... Your question should not be too hard becuse you can
only use the order that is given to you, correct? If you send me the rules,
then I will try to write someting up in C++ for you if you want... my E-mail
address is brierley@erols.com write back....
Morgan Bishop wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your help in my previous thread. I only know a little bit
> of ASM, and am fairly well aquatinted with Quick BASIC, and am trying to get
> used to BASIC. I was wondering if I could get some help with a program I'm
> trying to write, it is an extra-credit program. (And I can use to get even
> more extra-credit in the future:) Here is what I need
>
> My Honors Geometry teacher has this little game we play every day, called
> CRYTO. Basically, you are given 6 numbers, and you use the first 5 to solve
> for the 6th. For example, one CRYPTO was
> 4 2 9 3 8=17
> I quickly came up with
> 4/2 radical 9 *3 + 8=17
>
> This doesn't look right, but I don't know of any ASCII radical symbol. But
> basically, in order to take the square root of something, you would have to
> have a 2, (The 4/2=2) then use that to take the square root of 9, so you
> have a 3. Then multiply 3 *3 to get 9, and add an 8 to get 17. Basically,
> you can add, subtract, devoid (both ways, using the division sign, or the
> long division sign if the numbers needed to be flipped), multiply, square
> (or use any number that follows a number, if it were a 9 and a 2, you'd have
> 2 squared... 9 and 3, 9 cubed exc....) or take the root (also square root,
> cube root exc...)
>
> Well, I asked a while back if any of his other students have tried a
> program, and he said all have failed. So, I got to work. We'll, I'm about
> to quit my self. The way I have it planned it, you would set up some inputs
> to enter the six numbers, the set up a routine like Randgen that take four
> variables and uses the randint function. Set up the randint function to
> randint(1-6) for each variable. Remember, we have addition, subtraction,
> multiplication, both types of division, square roots and powers.
>
> But, how would I go about setting up a routine to take that randomint
> variable, such as L1, and use it to apply a calculator function. No matter
> what I try, I get a syntax error. Any ideas?
--
Tim Brierley
brierley@erols.com
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