Problem Euler 26

[Tony White]

Yes, let's try to be as active as we can


2008/7/2 kinuthiA muchanE <muchanek at gmail.com>:
> This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding you:)
> Andrew,
>
> I find your reply very encouraging, I hope more will come aboard and
> make this mailing list livelier. Project Euler is turning me into a
> geek! But I can live with that :-/
>
> I am sure you will not be disappointed by python, I haven't. I do not
> know what others would say. Right now I am trying to come into terms
> with Java and it being statically-typed and coming from python, it takes
> a lot to get used to it, I think.
>
> Anyway, jump into Euler or any other challenge and lets know how you are
> faring.
> Cheers!!
>
> Kinuthia...
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:05 -0400, Andrew Mathenge wrote:
>> Habari Kinuthia,
>>
>> Thanks for the code and the explanation. I will subscribe to the list
>> since I'm interested in learning Python and heard very very good
>> things about it.
>>
>> This is actually the first time that I've heard about Euler so I'm
>> going to roll my sleeves and try the other problems. I'll use this as
>> an opportunity to learn Python.
>>
>> By the way, thanks for posting the question. This is the most active
>> that I've seen this mailing list.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM, kinuthiA muchanE <muchanek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Habari,
>> >
>> > Andrew, this is hideous, really trivial! Here we go:
>> >
>> > from decimal import Decimal,getcontext # import the module because it is
>> > not a standard module
>> > getcontext().prec = 1000 # set the precision to 1000 places
>> > a = Decimal("1") # the argument passed to the Decimal function has to be
>> > a string
>> > h=983 # the guess!
>> > b = Decimal(str(h)) # convert it  into a string
>> > abStr = str(a/b)[2:] # slice the string to remove "0."
>> >
>> > print abStr
>> >
>> > I am sure you will find far, far erudite codes in all languages in the
>> > thread for that question. Apparently, there is an known algorithm for
>> > solving this particular problem, but do I say. But it seems I was not
>> > alone in using bush logic in trying to solve the problem!!
>> >
>> > As you might already know, python is a dynamically typed language( some
>> > really pedantic types will also add strongly typed, because you cannot
>> > use an integer as a string without converting it first, something you
>> > can in a language like VB Script!!), you do not declare the data-types
>> > of variables (like in C and Java), just assign values to variables and
>> > off you go! You do not need even the $ sign to identify your variables
>> > like Perl or php. They say python is very user friendly and at the same
>> > time very powerful, and undoubtedly very readable.
>> >
>> > You can subscribe to the mailing list here:
>> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo
>> >
>> > By the way, Andrew, Miano how many problems have you solved on Project
>> > Euler? I have solved a measly 33.
>> >
>> > Kinuthia...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
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