arthur.wiebe

You gotta love PHP when your mind does not seem to work any more but you need to figure out what 3 digit number ending with the digit 4 multiplied by a single digit number equals 1242. A simple script figured it out for me in less than 2 seconds.

$t = 104;
$b = 1;

$answer = ‘f’;
while ($answer == ‘f’) {
if ($t > 994) {
$t = 104;
$b++;
}
if ($b > 9) {
exit(”\n\nThere is no answer!\n\n”);
}

echo “$t * $b = “;
$tmp = $t * $b;
echo $tmp;
if ($tmp != 1242) {
echo ” False…\n”;
}
else {
echo ” TRUE!!!!!\n\n”;
echo “THE ANSWER HAS BEEN FOUND #########\n”;
$answer = $tmp;
}

$ft = substr($t, 0, 2);
$ft++;
$t = (int)$ft . 4;
}
?>

PHP’s always there is your time of need - Sometimes it’s easier to write a script than figure it out manually.