Anyone heard of this famous riddle?
Does anyone have the code written out for it for java or have any suggestions for writing a program that rolls 5 dice at random and then asks the user to input a guess based on the numbers to try and solve the pattern seen......
NOTE: If you have no idea what this riddle is, see
http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html)
i can not say it directly to you. i answer you in code ;)
public int getAnswer(int[] dices) {
int petals = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < dices.length; i++) {
if (dices[i] == 3 || dices[i] == 5) petals += (dices[i] - 1);
}
}
the solution is very simple. you must figure out what means
petals around the rose
petals around the rose
petals around the rose
> What's the answer/soluction?
int solve(int[] dies) {
int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < dies.length; i++) {
if (dies[i] == 3) result += 2;
if (dies[i] == 5) result += 4;
}
return result;
}
<quote>
public int getAnswer(int[] dices) {
int petals = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < dices.length; i++) {
if (dices[i] == 3 || dices[i] == 5) petals += (dices[i] - 1);
}
}
int solve(int[] dies) {
int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < dies.length; i++) {
if (dies[i] == 3) result += 2;
if (dies[i] == 5) result += 4;
}
return result;
}
</quote>
Still, I don't understand.
Wha's the sense of all that?
revision:
public int getAnswer(int[] dices) {
int petals = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < dices.length; i++) {
if (dices[i] % 2 != 0) petals += (dices[i] - 1); // only odd number pattern is a rose...
}
return petals
}
I finally figured it out; and no, I didn't cheat; after I read the OPs question there
were no replies yet. It took me about two hours to figure it out; I feel stupid ;-)
I started off with a bunch of linear equations: to no avail. Then I used CPLEX
on a bunch of examples I found on the net with a piecewise linear cost function:
no avail either. The I used a transformation trying to map the words 'petals
around the rose' and tried my first two methods again: nothing.
When I was near giving up, I saw the light. And now I'm in the knowing too
(finally!), I promise not to tell anyone else about it ;-)
kind regards,
Jos
> I finally figured it out; and no, I didn't cheat;
> after I read the OPs question there
> were no replies yet. It took me about two hours to
> figure it out; I feel stupid ;-)
no need to feel stupid, i asked google fot solution, but it didn't direct me directly to one, so i had to read what it found, and on one page it was mentioned, that the smarter you are, the more complex that problem is to you.
but fortunatelly i fond some page where they said "pay attention to the name of problem: pedals around the rose"
... and the rest is history.