Problem 4 is an interesting one. “A palindromic number reads the same both ways. Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers.”
I thought about this for a few minutes and decided the best way to approach it would be to build candidate palindromic numbers and and then test them to [...]
I did complete Problem 4 already, but the write up will take a bit of time. So I went ahead and did Problem 5, in a very quick and dirty way.
Problem 5 – “What is the smallest number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20?”
The total [...]
When I first read Problem 3 I thought it was going to be more involved than it turned out to be.
“What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ?”
And I started thinking I’ll need to list the factors and test them for primality, or find primes first and test only [...]
Problem 2 is again stated simply- “Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the (Fibonacci) sequence which do not exceed four million.”
The Fibonacci Sequence is the sequence which runs 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 etc. in which each term is the sum of the previous two terms.
Again, conceptually easy. [...]
Getting started with my quest via my first attempt at a solution in Erlang to Project Euler’s problem number 1.
The problem itself is simply stated : “Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.”
A naive algorithm is immediately apparent- cycle through each number between below 1000 and sum those that [...]
I’ve been doodling with Erlang of late, attempting to make up for what I missed by not diving into functional programming long ago. I’ve slacked off in my progress, lacking any coherent project to apply it to.
But in the last few days I stumbled across Project Euler, a site that presents a number [...]
I’ve been reading up on Google Wave and thinking about it’s potential as a hub for transmedia activities.
Wave is the next step in Google’s ongoing move towards development of collaborative tools, following on Google Apps, Calendar, etc. Those were the obvious first step, Wave is the next generation tool, bringing in real time conversation [...]
So there’s the video from E3 of Peter Molyneux showing off a project his company is working on, based on Microsoft’s Project Natal. It’s a character named Milo living in a tiny virtual world. The video shows a woman named Claire interacting with Milo in ways that seem wondrous and amazing.
But how much of what [...]
Adapted from a post on the message boards at the fantastic screenwriting site Wordplayer. Read everything everywhere on that site if you want a deep understanding of how to write a screenplay.
So with my web sketch comedy group Monkey With A Shotgun, I’ve got an actual revenue-generating video series over on Babelgum.
Babelgum is a [...]
Say you were interested in transmedia storytelling.
Now imagine you were telling your story via user interaction with a persistent, learning, evolving character (like the dream version of the Natal Milo demo). Say the character would always be interacting with the user, to the point that they were “living” the story together.
Your goal here would really [...]
