WooWaaBob wrote:Would it be possible to add the Isle Of Man as a country to the projecteuler.net profile page please?
Done.
When I resized the official flag to the standard icon size: 21 by x (where x=13 in this case) the "Three Legs of Man" was almost too small to see. So I kept the flag in the same proportion but removed some of the red around the outside before resizing it. In other words, the flag image is a marginally zoomed version of the official flag. Do you think this will be okay?
@jui-feng: Unfortunately some full problem text (especially some of the earlier problems) are quite brief. Sometimes the description/title is almost the same as the full problem wording itself, but you will notice that over time the title/description has become more succinct. However, I've modified the scripts to display the title/description when you hover the mouse of the problem number at the top of each problem page. Also, hovering the mouse over the left and right arrows at the top of the page, which takes you to previous/next problem, will show the title/description.
Not that big of a problem, but the auto-focus on the answer-form has the irritating effect of automatically scrolling to the bottom when the problem has a long description.
That's a good point. However, I can't think of an easy workaround. Depending on browser and viewing preferences the text size for every member will be different, so I can't just get the script to set the focus on the answer box iff the body length of the problem wording is below a given limit. Any suggestions?
euler wrote:@jui-feng: Unfortunately some full problem text (especially some of the earlier problems) are quite brief. Sometimes the description/title is almost the same as the full problem wording itself, but you will notice that over time the title/description has become more succinct. However, I've modified the scripts to display the title/description when you hover the mouse of the problem number at the top of each problem page.
WooWaaBob wrote:Would it be possible to add the Isle Of Man as a country to the projecteuler.net profile page please?
euler wrote:Done.
When I resized the official flag to the standard icon size: 21 by x (where x=13 in this case) the "Three Legs of Man" was almost too small to see. So I kept the flag in the same proportion but removed some of the red around the outside before resizing it. In other words, the flag image is a marginally zoomed version of the official flag. Do you think this will be okay?
No problems from my point of view. The three legs appears in many different forms here on the Island.
Latex is no longer working on the problem forums. I first thought it might be my browser, but Latex is functioning normally on this forum. Has it been disabled?
I made a post in the forum for Problem 153 (View Problem) and Latex is working fine on my system (XP, IE8).
(And your post is showing fine on my system too).
War ruins the life and health of untold numbers of innocent children.
This request is based on this thread: Locked/Archived Threads @ Project Euler
Even though the early problems are easy, as a student I haven't really delved into the complex regions of maths or programming or anything. I would really love to discuss with others how they solved the problem and their methods. Even though the locked threads contain a lot of good stuff, often the better solvers solve first and don't explain their code thoroughly.
My request is this:
Have another thread for each problem or a range of 10 problems or something (a thread for 1-10, 11-20 etc.), but where posts older than a month or something are deleted and you can only access it after you've solved the problem. This makes it possible to discuss the problem, but since the posts will be deleted, it won't take up too much space on the server.
I would really like to discuss how other people solved the problem, but currently there is no way to do that. The public forum (on this website) is not suitable place, as you cannot post spoilers, and their is no other way.
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I understand your sentiment. It is one I have had as well. If it was technically feasible, I think a more wiki style of problem thread would be the right solution. On the wikipedia you have an article page for subject and a discussion page.
For me, the article page should be the "optimal solution" page, where members which have solved the problem are free to edit the page to explain the theory, algorithms and implementation details/optimization for the various used programming languages. The problem page should be kept relatively short only presenting the highest quality material and the best and most awesome solutions. The article page could start out with a template/fixed structure, but the idea would be that anyone who has solved the problem could edit it. If someone add an error other watchers will revert or correct the error. The problem page could then overtake the role of those nice pdfs, there are for a few problems.
This would also address the issue with programming languages, which have emerged/matured since the oldest problems threads have been closed.
The discussion page would be for users venting their achievements or stupidities, discussing the problem or perhaps asking about something they do not understand in their code. If it gets too long, the oldest posts gets archived, but there should still be links to the archives, for those really wanting to dwelve into all issues which have been raised since the problem was published.
Just my 2 øre (Danish equivalent to cent).
Edit: I just realized how terrible my memory is. I also suggested a wiki idea a year ago, where it was thoroughly discussed and (unfortunately) not so easy to integrate on this website.
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Just my thoughts (as a PE member, not as an admin).
I think that thedoctar has perfectly described what I think the wishes of quite a few starting members are.
Just compare it to being in school:
You want to discuss your excercises with those that went through it recently. (Are in the same class so to speak).
What do you care about the class from 10 years back?
If Colin (aka Euler) sees a way of implementing what thedoctar asks I think this will come a long way in the direction of making the earlier problems as interesting for new members as the were about 10 years ago.
As PE member I fully support what thedoctar has proposed.
(Just my 2 eurocents)
War ruins the life and health of untold numbers of innocent children.
On our profile page, I'd appreciate if we were able to select more than one programming language -- depending on the problem, I use bash, java, and python, and I'm sure many do the same thing (or similar).
I think it would have been more efficient to add a place where people post their code (1 post per user, sorted by programming language for example). It would be separate from the forum, so that those who blindly post useless uncommented code stop spoiling the discussion thread.
hk wrote:If Colin (aka Euler) sees a way of implementing what thedoctar asks I think this will come a long way in the direction of making the earlier problems as interesting for new members as the were about 10 years ago.
As PE member I fully support what thedoctar has proposed.
Awesome, I hope to see it implemented in the future, if euler can do it!
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+1 from me for this initiative. I think however that it might be easiest to implement if just every (locked) problem gets such a forum. A range of 10 problems would be hard to manage as to whom gets to see what.
Joined PE in May 2011
