Daniel Coughlin wrote:
>  
>  Well I know this is not a very good solution - but it is my first attempt.
>  I used the random module to create the number sets ad that can take a long time.
>  Is there a better way of going about creating the sets? (I dont want to check
>  the article yet - besides i doubt i will understand any of it ;-)
>  The other problem I encountered which is probably soaking up time is that there
>  is an unaccounted for runtime error that happens periodically. I handle this,
>  but i know it still happens, and it is knawing at me... If anyone can
>  figure out way that happens, I'd love to know.
>  
>  One thing you will notice is that you can change the level of precision by
>  changing the string slice indexes.
>  
>  To get two decimal places over usually takes between 5 and 15 seconds. But
>  sometimes it takes a while.
>  BTW - I *really* like problems like this - If you have any others, I'd love to
>  hear about them.

It took me long enough, but your solution has been posted to Useless
Python. If you truly enjoy this sort of problem, take a look at some of
the (hundreds of) ACM problems available:

http://www.lowerstandard.com/python/acmcontest.html

Thanks,
Rob

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