Project Euler Forum

I understand that Project Euler is a website that challenges the interested problem solver to up their programming or mathematics skill. But what if someone was really interested in Computational Number Theory which is what most of Project Euler problems would be classified as; but is put off by the difficulty of the problems. Would it be possible to create a Project Euler Lite website (just like Project Euler Info website) where all Project Euler problems would have their parameters adjusted so the difficulty level would be like somewhere between 5% and 10% as on the main website. All of the problems will have their parameters adjusted so they could be solved with 32-bit integers as available in VBScript. The main problem with doing this myself is having the correct answers to the simplified version of the problem.

I don't think that Project Euler would do a web site with more simple versions of their problems.
If there are many answers to a problem, there is a chance that tthis problem is relatively easy to solve.
You can read all problems and, if you feel that you are unable to solve it, you skip this problem and you go to the next problem.
You don't have to solve all problems in consecutive order. You can solve them in any order.

Well, take for example problem 585 nested square roots. You are suggesting skip the problem. What I am saying is that the problem is still interesting enough to solve for M = N / 20, were N (= 5000000) is the problem parameter. I would prefer to solve the problem for easier parameters than skip the whole problem.

pim.mfs.0 wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 3:00 pm Well, take for example problem 585 nested square roots. You are suggesting skip the problem. What I am saying is that the problem is still interesting enough to solve for M = N / 20, were N (= 5000000) is the problem parameter. I would prefer to solve the problem for easier parameters than skip the whole problem.

You are the same person as before, right? It is really annoying to have the same person repeating the same thing over and over again. Why don't you create your own website?

You can always try to solve the problem for smaller values, but:
+ don't expect that Project Euler will give you the answer.
+ if you can solve the problem with small values, why can't you solve them with large values?
Maybe you don't have the proper algorithm to solve the problem?
If I try to solve the problems with different values than yours, it would mean that PE has to save all possibilities.
It makes no sense.

I'm closing this discussion.
Pim is warned to not try this again for the third time.