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Hi, on challenge:

a number > 31337.0 is required. and 72258202379729527373824.0 is a valid one but it says that "Your answer seems wrong!".

Are we looking for the smallest number > 31337 that satisfies the condition?

Greetings,
xseris

I guess that's a good idea. Also i am disappointed by the python type system...

Quite ambiguous challenge. We are suppsed to find certain value? What should the representation of the number be? Should it be integer? I can find quite a lot of numbers that fit the spec...

Yeah, it is indeed a bit ambigous and "crappy"
I assumed one would try to calculate a number that fits.

Try integers.

If you try the first obvious number that fits, you get a message that a bigger number is required.
Now try to calculate the next number that would work.

Greetz
Giz

I am sorry for the confusion.
The challenge solution got changed, as i made a mistake in my calculations.

Also, in the code, "float" has been changed to "int".
I only wanted to point out that whole float number hashes are identical to their int partners.

Thanks to tehron for the fixes \o

Tanks for the clarification and for revisiting your calculations! Beyond the working floating point cited in the first post (that still produces 31337 as hash) I was also trying the integer solution without success till today. Now it works!

Quote from gizmore

May 15, 2024 - 21:19:56

I am sorry for the confusion.
The challenge solution got changed, as i made a mistake in my calculations.

Also, in the code, "float" has been changed to "int".
I only wanted to point out that whole float number hashes are identical to their int partners.

Thanks to tehron for the fixes \o

Hey gizmoire, thanks for the challenge!

A couple suggestions:

- You might want to also allow solutions created on 32-bit machines to work, or at least add a note on the challenge that only 64-bit machines will produce the expected result.
See my post in the solutions forum for more details.
I don't expect many people to be trying to solve this on 32-bit machines in 2024 and beyond, but you never know, we could save them some time of banging their heads against the wall!

- Also it's probably worth mentioning that this relies on an implementation detail of the CPython implementation of Python; the challenge page mentions a specific version (3.10), but the implementation is as relevant, if not more so.
There are other Python implementations out there that might not produce the expected result.

Additional help was giving in the note:
Note: This challenge got tested with cpython, 64-bit, python3.10 and should be easy.