Re: The "Strand" puzzle --- ( Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:58:21 -0700, HenHanna wrote:

---------- is this (also) easy to do using Lisp or Python???

I threw this code together in about two minutes:

    lo = 50
    hi = 500
    i = (lo + hi) // 2
    while True :
        losum = sum(range(lo, i))
        hisum = sum(range(i + 1, hi + 1))
        print(i, losum, hisum)
        if losum == hisum :
            break
        if losum > hisum :
            i = i - 1
        else :
            i = i + 1
        #end if
    #end while

and it seems there is no actual solution: it keeps oscillating between 355
and 356.