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   minforth   wrote:   
   >Am 29.09.2025 um 11:23 schrieb albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl:   
   > > There is a hard (level 100) problem in projecteuler 566,   
   > > it is an intriguing problem about cutting a cake and flipping   
   > > parts of it. Then it magically returns to the original   
   > > situation where all the frosting is up. The cuts are irrational.   
   > > It is a bit theoretical, because million even billions cuts   
   > > are needed.   
   > > After years I came back to it, and I'm proud to announce that   
   > > it has been solved by a Forth program.   
   > >   
   > > It has been posed june 2016 and I was the 266th solver.   
   >   
   >Congratulations!   
   >   
   >I had a brief look at the task, and it seems to me that the challenge   
   >lies more in the mathematical modelling than in the programming.   
   >I did not look up solutions in other languages, e.g. Haskell, but the   
   >fact that Forth can be forged into tools for so many application   
   >or problem classes speaks for its flexibility.   
      
   It is demanding as computation resources are concerned.   
   8 of the fastest 10 solvers use C++ or Java.   
   Only one of the 100 fastest solvers used Haskell, from China.   
   Groetjes Albert   
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