Sometimes I want to be able to write code like the following so that I can substitute a placeholder for a given substring: In order to get the above code to work, I wrote the following function: This function will take an arbitrary amount of arguments and return the string Read more…
Over the years, I have seen many different techniques for emulating the InputBox and MsgBox functions in JScript, but none of them were quite as elegant as the one I saw here. Once I dug into the code and realized that ScriptControl was making it so that JScript could run Read more…
This is the answer to last week’s Problem of the Week: Fill the 5.2 gallon bottle. Poor 4 gallons from the 5.2 bottle into to 4 gallon bottle, leaving 1.2 gallons in the 5.2 gallon bottle. Empty the 4 gallon bottle. Poor the remaining 1.2 gallons into the 4 gallon Read more…
You are police officer who just showed up to a crime scene where the instructions for disarming a bomb are left. The bomb is sitting in front of a large fountain of water. Also, two large bottles are near the bomb. One bottle has a capacity of 5.2 gallons while Read more…
This is the answer to last week’s Problem of the Week. The thing that made that problem so difficult is that you must account for RANDOM. Therefore, the first goal is to first determine at least one entity who cannot possibly be RANDOM. Thusly, the first question which will be Read more…
The answer to last week’s Problem of the Week is that the following definitions represent the factorial of the given non-negative integer: Mathematical Definition Function Definition Condition unnamed(n) = 1 if n = 0 n × unnamed(n – 1) if n > 0 JavaScript Definition Although it may have been Read more…
This Problem of the Week is another logic problem. It is a variation of the famous puzzle off of which the True and False POW was based. The answer to this question will not be revealed until Sunday at 12:00 AM EST can be found here. Problem of the Week You Read more…
This Problem of the Week involves determining the identity of a well-known mathematical function by examining the algorithm used on the input number to produce the output. The function will only accept integers that are greater than or equal to zero. The following is the mathematical definition of the function: Function Definition Condition Read more…
This is the Problem of the Week answer for this post. Part #1 Both Don and Juan and are given a task on which they must work together to complete in a timely fashion. It takes Don 75 minutes to do the job by himself. It takes Juan 60 minutes Read more…
Both Don and Juan and are given a task on which they must work together to complete in a timely fashion. It takes Don 75 minutes to do the job by himself. It takes Juan 60 minutes to do the job by himself. At their speed, how long would it Read more…