posted 6 years ago
I stumbled upon the Google foo.bar challenge Easter egg the other day while searching for Dijkstra's Goto Considered Harmful essay. If you want to try your hand at it and haven't been able to find the Easter egg, I have a one-time use only link to give away. First one, to ask for it gets it, I'll send it via Purple Mooseage or to whatever email you want me to use.
I've completed the Largest Squares, the Ion-Flux rearranging, and the Gearing Up for Destruction. All pretty challenging if you try to come up with the algorithms yourself, without help from others who have posted their solutions. On the last challenge I did, the Gearing up for Destruction, I got stuck with 8/10 tests passing the verification. I did look at other solutions but I only needed them to get an insight as to what I was missing in my solution, which is all based on math, no brute-force trial-and-error needed.