Problem 206. the return of the hackathon

You might have found a solution to our previous hackathon entry, but can you do that again?

As before, I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10000... can you guess what this number is?

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The test suite has random predefined entries. Your job is to find a hack and have your function return the correct answer.

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Neither the @bmtran's evalin trick nor a lookup table nor the solution of the previous hackathon entry would work here...

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 3 Feb 2012

Ha, playing cat and mouse with eval blocking?

@bmtran on 5 Feb 2012

apparently so

Yaroslav on 23 Apr 2013

Nice solution; however, isn't that against Cody's spirit? Besides the brute-force solution, which ought to work eventually (thumbs-up to the guy, who has actually done that), I thought that the trick was to use the "persistent" variables...

Solution 21426

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Aurelien Queffurust on 22 Mar 2012

I removed dis p compared to previous solution 64235 and earn 8 points;)

Solution 20961

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 1 Feb 2012

awesome

Problem 206. the return of the hackathon

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