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		gordaco on Aug 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are es... Of course... but for many people, in Project Euler the goal is not just to get a solution, it's to create a beautiful and/or efficient solution. This is why reading the comments and finding other people's solutions after solving a problem is usually as fulfilling as solving it, or even more.

jjaredsimpson on Aug 23, 2017 [–]

For sure, only commenting that for that particular problem, brute force is viable. For many problems brute force is not viable.

I was grinding PE a couple years ago to pick up Haskell.

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