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Re: problems of everyday life
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North Year |
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Re: problems of everyday life |
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Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:54:01 -0500 |
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Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:
> If you are to boil one egg for 5 minutes, the other for
> 7 minutes, and the third one for 10 minutes, how long time
> does it take to boil all three eggs?
>
> In Lisp, there are several ways to solve this, it can be
> put as
>
> (+ 5 7 10)
>
> or maybe
>
> (apply #’+ ’(5 7 10))
>
> or … well, what do you prefer?
This leads to a dynamic programming problem I guess.
x eggs to be boiled each of which need x_i times to be boiled.
y pots can be used to boil egges each of which has capacity to cook y_i eggs at
one time.
Never tried to writing algorithm codes in elisp. This would be interesting.
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