Excellent Numbers in Perl

Excellent Numbers in Perl

By brian d foy (‎brian d foy‎) from NY.pm
Date: Saturday, 3 September 2016 11:40
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: math perl


A number ab is excellent if b^2 - a^2 == ab. Before I started this project, very few of these numbers had been discovered. With the help of Perl, then Python, we've found tens of thousands.


Attended by: Stefan Hornburg (‎Racke‎), Michael Kröll (‎pepl‎), Lee Johnson, Bradley Andersen (‎elohmrow‎), Renee Bäcker (‎reneeb‎), Axel Beckert (‎ABE / XTaran‎), brian d foy (‎brian d foy‎), Marcel Grünauer (‎Marcel‎), Jozef Kutej (‎jozef‎), Markus Hechenberger (‎Hechi‎), Wolfgang Schemmel (‎Perleone‎), Elmar Heeb (‎esh‎), Dirk Deimeke, David Schmidt (‎davewood‎),