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Avatrin
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Hi
I recently noticed that the first Project Euler problem was published in 2001! The first 100 problems were all published before 2006. That made me curious; What I wonder is how different the difficulty is now versus then... I mean, I can think of two factors that make things easier:
1. The hardware. The first 100 problems were meant to be solved on Pentium 4 CPU's. How much of a difference does having faster hardware make?
2. The software.. I have been using Python to solve a lot of these problems. I generally try not to use NumPy, but I have done that. Numpy 1.0 was released in 2006. How much of a difference does this make?
I recently noticed that the first Project Euler problem was published in 2001! The first 100 problems were all published before 2006. That made me curious; What I wonder is how different the difficulty is now versus then... I mean, I can think of two factors that make things easier:
1. The hardware. The first 100 problems were meant to be solved on Pentium 4 CPU's. How much of a difference does having faster hardware make?
2. The software.. I have been using Python to solve a lot of these problems. I generally try not to use NumPy, but I have done that. Numpy 1.0 was released in 2006. How much of a difference does this make?