Timeline for Five Hundred Cigarettes
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Oct 20 at 21:43 | answer | added | Xcali | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 16 at 12:36 | answer | added | ojdo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 15 at 5:41 | answer | added | hakr14 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 31 at 11:55 | answer | added | Themoonisacheese | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 28, 2024 at 18:00 | comment | added | ConnieMnemonic | @Hearth The sample is correct. Apex alignment was in reference to incomplete layers, which turned out not to be relevant ultimately. | |
| Sep 28, 2024 at 1:09 | answer | added | typecasto | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 27, 2024 at 16:08 | comment | added | Hearth | You say left-aligned, but the output sample is right-aligned. I assume the sample is correct? | |
| Sep 27, 2024 at 11:20 | answer | added | Kjetil S | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 27, 2024 at 7:55 | answer | added | Kevin Cruijssen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 27, 2024 at 1:28 | answer | added | Antonio Ponce | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 21:52 | comment | added | ConnieMnemonic | Yeah, in all honesty, I didn't expect the maths would shake out so that you'd end on a finished layer. So the point is largely moot. | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 21:44 | comment | added | l4m2 | I asked case 4 as \$\begin{matrix}&o&\\o&o&o\end{matrix}\$ or \$\begin{matrix}&&o\\o&o&o\end{matrix}\$, but it seems either are good when n=500 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 21:25 | answer | added | Neil | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 21:24 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 26, 2024 at 20:46 | answer | added | Arnauld | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 20:34 | answer | added | Jonathan Allan | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 16:47 | answer | added | pacman256 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 15:19 | history | edited | ConnieMnemonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 15:11 | history | edited | ConnieMnemonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Added target output |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 15:02 | answer | added | Themoonisacheese | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 14:46 | comment | added | ConnieMnemonic | @Themoonisacheese Deleted my previous comment because I was, in fact, completely wrong lmao. That's super helpful, thanks for posting! | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 14:44 | comment | added | Themoonisacheese | @ConnieMnemonic: i've just done the maths and it seems a truncated triangle with a base 32 is the minimum. 31 gives you an extra 4 that can't meet the spec, 32 gives you the base of a triangle exactly 29 complete layers tall, with the remaining 7 layers removed. the apex layer will be 8 cigarettes wide, exactly enough to complete that layer. | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 14:34 | comment | added | ConnieMnemonic | @bigyihsuan I sadly can't provide one at the moment; in the office rn then away from a machine for a while. Once someone's got a solve I'll paste it into the question though. :) | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 14:32 | comment | added | Themoonisacheese | @bigyihsuan: according to the spec, it's more correct to use a 32-size truncated triangle, because the spec requires there to be only one pile. | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 14:05 | comment | added | bigyihsuan | May be helpful: the closest triangular number to 500 is 496, so the highest pile probably looks like a triangle 31 layers tall with 4 extra cigarettes off to the side. | |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 13:49 | history | edited | ConnieMnemonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Apex alignment clarification |
| Sep 26, 2024 at 13:47 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 26, 2024 at 13:37 | history | edited | ConnieMnemonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 24 characters in body |
| S Sep 26, 2024 at 13:24 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Sep 26, 2024 at 13:24 | history | asked | ConnieMnemonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |