Author Archives: Simmoril

I had some time to kill today, so I decided to take a brief look at a subject I’ve been wanting to study for some time: backtracking algorithms. One of the most common example problems used to demonstrate backtracking algorithms … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work with awk, and I’ve been really impressed with all of the features available in its programming language. This got me to thinking about what kind of programs one could write in awk, … Continue reading →

So in an attempt to keep my coding skills sharp, I’ve been making my way through some of Facebook’s Engineering Puzzles. In particular, one puzzle that I found especially interesting was the ‘Gattaca’ problem, and so I thought I’d share … Continue reading →

So… much… fail…

Introduction So, I recently became addicted to an online game called Boggle Bash, which is pretty much the original Boggle with a couple of twists thrown in. Although I’d been playing it for a couple weeks, at the very outset … Continue reading →

From Google Treasure Hunt 2008: Find the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of 3 consecutive prime numbers, the sum of 5 consecutive prime numbers, the sum of 517 consecutive prime numbers, the sum of 551 consecutive … Continue reading →

Honestly, I have to say I was surprised to see that (at the time of this writing) this book was averaging 4.5 stars on Amazon. I suppose my expectations of this book were heavily swayed by the title. I was … Continue reading →