Introducing the brand new

Mathematics X Programming Competition!

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2014/april/images/putnam_400x246.jpg.jpg Photo source: https://www.cmu.edu --- Previously I have held some mathematics challenges and I received quite a lot of positive feedback. Among these feedback there is one very special and constructive idea from my dear friend @adnanrahic - he suggested me to add the element of programming into my mathematics challenges! Indeed mathematics is closely related to programming, and quite a lot of mathematics questions can be solved by programming. Therefore, in the upcoming challenges, we would not specify whether the problem is best solved mathematically or programmatically. We will leave it for you to decide! The ultimate goal is to get the answer as quick as possible! ---- ### Rules - The next competition will begin **24 hours later** (that is GMT 14:00 15/6/2017, please convert it to your own timezone :) ) By that time, a new post containing the question will be published. - In order to avoid cheating, you are required to submit your answer through a provided link to Google Form. Only the final numerical answer together with your user name has to be submitted. - Each participant can only submit once. In case of duplicated submission, the latest answer will be considered. - Participants who typed the answer in the comment section would be disqualified. - You have to upvote this post AND the question post in order to be eligible for the competition. ### Prizes - The final SBD payout of **this** post would be added to the prize pool. The prize pool contains 0 SBD at this moment. - The **first** participant who gave the correct answer will get **75%** of the prize pool. - Other participants who got the correct answers will enter a lucky draw. *Those who resteemed this post will have 400% higher chance to win!* 5 winners will be chosen and they will share **25%** of the prize pool. - If not all prizes are given out, they will be accumulated for the next competition! - Please note that the payout of the question post would not be included in the prize pool. So if you want to support me please upvote with a high power on that post :) - @kenchung reserve all the rights to disqualify any suspected cheating players and decide the distribution of prize among the winner(s). --- ### Special thanks to @adnanrahic for generously offering his help to this competition! In particular he has provided lots of useful information in the programming aspect, as I am more familiar with maths than programming. Make sure you take a look at his blogs to learn some very useful programming knowledge! :) --- ### Let's resteem this post so that more people are aware of this competition! This will also increase the prize pool! I would be more than happy if any whales are willing to sponsor our prize pool ;) If you wish to directly sponsor the prize pool instead of upvoting this post, please let me know, I can arrange for this. --- The upcoming challenge will have a difficulty level of 4 out of 10, which means it won't be too difficult so please have a try :) Meanwhile you can have a look at the previous challenges first :) ### Previous challenges Math challenge #1 - Find the remainder! Math challenge #2 - Find the value of these recurring square roots Math challenge #3 - Find its length! Math challenge #4 - Probability of slapping your Chief Executive? ---- Upvote, resteem and follow me at @kenchung if you like my posts!