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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
New & Improved Definition Last year I wrote a version of this function which was to mimic the Python expandtabs function. The funny thing is I didn’t remember that I wrote the function in the first place. Therefore while working Read more…