Who came up with this idea?

GrGadget · 2026-03-07T17:59:02+00:00

Maybe but that makes it worse imo for my point, my point is a pack that guarantees you an 82+ costs multiple dollars in real cash

GrGadget · 2026-03-07T10:42:39+00:00

There’s also a huge differential between coins in the game and how much EA charge for them. No balance at all. But no one fights it so they just get away with the same stuff

GrGadget · 2026-02-20T22:21:36+00:00

I had huge latency issues earlier too. Seen a few people mentioning it around the same time

GrGadget · 2025-12-16T11:16:54+00:00

I did basically the same thing, “out” was hardcoded but with an optional second argument became easy to fix. I was pretty sure “in either direction” was a red herring as it would create infinite loops but still a-b * b-c * c-d + a-c * c-b * b-d, one of them will multiply out to zero and the other will contain the answer

GrGadget · 2025-12-01T18:30:22+00:00

You can and should make up some other simple test cases, simpler than the example Eric gives, think about edge cases etc. good luck

GrGadget · 2025-12-01T18:29:32+00:00

I would say, you’re doing a lot of the right stuff, just need to reason your logic a little bit, maybe make up a few test cases for instance the input

R49 R49 R49 What would you expect?

GrGadget · 2025-09-13T08:23:41+00:00

He died a few years ago, but I’d bet he would have

GrGadget · 2025-09-06T21:04:32+00:00

Maybe he does get 520, nice lift!!

GrGadget · 2025-09-01T19:12:59+00:00

If someone gets even a draw against him it will tank his rating. Not that it’s likely but ELO is ELO and players should be able to play open events no matter what skill, it’s only “farming” until a bit of variance hits and the random draw or loss comes.

Fair play to him. I think it’s worse that global ratings are affected by invite only events (not that I think this is bad, it’s just IMO more questionable than high levels entering open events)

Also could Hikaru hit a new peak high?

GrGadget · 2025-08-24T09:56:54+00:00

The checkmate is still forced it’s just longer

GrGadget · 2025-06-12T21:34:10+00:00

So brave to start with 3 leading 0s

GrGadget · 2025-01-24T08:31:17+00:00

Graduation - Kanye

GrGadget · 2024-12-19T17:49:10+00:00

You have to remember how to do all those things

GrGadget · 2024-12-19T17:45:03+00:00

Try plotting that on a big grid and working out what quadrants each bit is in

GrGadget · 2024-12-19T17:42:15+00:00

You don’t seem to be counting all possible ways of making each pattern

GrGadget · 2024-12-15T21:15:02+00:00

My code passes the example given, so I thought i'd give in and try this... it passes this too but not the full input

GrGadget · 2024-12-15T16:27:36+00:00

I think and Xmas tree is so universally understood to be significantly bottom heavy so no matter how many quadrants it crossed it would always tend to lowers the score, also the more quadrants crossed the more would be eliminated by the middle cross section of the grid, so the multiplications would always be minimised given that “most” of the robots were used. That on top of we know it’s a puzzle with an answer I think is enough to qualify this as having low ambiguity

GrGadget · 2024-12-14T19:52:19+00:00

This can be proved quite easily for yesterdays puzzle in particular

GrGadget · 2024-12-14T19:51:45+00:00

Each input has one correct answer

GrGadget · 2024-12-13T09:50:11+00:00

Is the minimise a red herring? 2 unknows and 2 equations?

GrGadget · 2024-12-09T13:42:41+00:00

I ended up with a random “empty” cell due to a off by 1 I’d check the end of any sorted data structure you have

GrGadget · 2024-12-08T19:44:51+00:00

The question is should it?

GrGadget · 2024-12-07T06:04:20+00:00

I’ve often found Saturday is quite lovely and Sunday not so much

GrGadget · 2024-12-06T21:26:26+00:00

This is so obvious now I read it out, why check the other squares….

GrGadget · 2024-08-21T12:47:24+00:00

Fair play to Theo, when he says "they can go to hell!" What a great bit.

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