Polymad pwned3 challenge - solve quadratics

Author: Twigonometry

pwned3/polymad.py

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+import cmath
+
+coeffs = [
+ [832, -112, 1],
+ [888, -119, 1],
+ [721, -110, 1],
+ [294, -101, 1],
+ [736, -100, 1],
+ [812, -123, 1],
+ [637, -98, 1],
+ [147, -52, 1],
+ [644, -99, 1],
+ [882, -107, 1],
+ [534, -95, 1],
+ [115, -116, 1],
+ [47, -48, 1],
+ [774, -95, 1],
+ [303, -104, 1],
+ [138, -49, 1],
+ [300, -103, 1],
+ [855, -104, 1],
+ [94, -95, 1],
+ [336, -115, 1],
+ [288, -99, 1],
+ [495, -104, 1],
+ [47, -48, 1],
+ [351, -48, 1],
+ [107, -108, 1],
+ [364, -95, 1],
+ [392, -57, 1],
+ [320, -48, 1],
+ [336, -55, 1],
+ [552, -98, 1],
+ [360, -49, 1],
+ [220, -49, 1],
+ [388, -101, 1],
+ [329, -54, 1],
+ [366, -125, 1],
+]
+
+sols = []
+
+for cs in coeffs:
+ d = (cs[1]**2) - (4*cs[0]*cs[2])
+ sol1 = (-cs[1] - cmath.sqrt(d))/(2*cs[0])
+ sol2 = (-cs[1] + cmath.sqrt(d))/(2*cs[0])
+ sols.append([sol1, sol2, sol1 + sol2])
+
+print(sols)
+
+sums = [sol[2] for sol in sols]
+
+print(sums)
+
+# chars = ''.join([chr(sum) for sum in sums])