Talk:Pandigital prime: Difference between revisions
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:::Problem is, we all provide solutions to these tasks and ''then'' say we want to delete them - maybe if we just ignored the tasks we don't like, didn't post solutions and waited for Thundergnat to rule on them, there might be more justification for deleting them. Perhaps we could flag then as "Under Review - post solutions at your own risk" or something ? <br><br>
:::RC has a Category:[[Simple]] for easier programming tasks - the [[Sum_multiples_of_3_and_5]] could fall into that category. I like that task as a small amount of thought can yield a better solution than the obvious one.<br><br>
:::What do you particularly dislike about [[Special_pythagorean_triplet]] (a task you have provided two solutions for) ?
::::No description (grounds alone for immediate deletion imo) and no added value. See also below. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 02:30, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
:::Other than several of the solution authors haven't read the task description and/or have neglected to calculate a * b * c, I have no problem with it. I for one, put not inconsiderable thought and effort into it, as I imagine Nigel, yourself and several other people did too. For that reason alone I think it should stand.<br><br>
:::However, I must agree that RC should not just be a collection of tasks "find primes with property X" and "solve Project Euler Problem Y" and perhaps we should draw the line here.<br><br>
:::The use of the task test verbatim from Project Euler worried me considerably, however I believe their license allows it - after re-reading the license page several times, I came to the concluson that the bit that says it can't be re-published is refering to everything else except the problem itself. I'm not a lawyer though, so I could be wrong... Whether their license means the task page as a whole is now under the Creative Commons license is also something I'm not qualified to say. It might be better to change the description to something like "Solve the Project Euler problem ''here''" (where ''here'' is a link to their page) and remove all actual PE text.<br><br>
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::::::For existing tasks, I finally propose to keep them. At least, the limits of what is acceptable are somewhat more clear.
::::::--[[User:Lscrd|lscrd]] ([[User talk:Lscrd|talk]]) 21:02, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
::To recap, the about page of projecteuler states
:::I learned so much solving problem XXX, so is it okay to publish my solution elsewhere?
::: ...Please do not deny others what you have so richly valued yourself.
::: ...However/1 to 100/if you are able to respect/to be discussed elsewhere.
::A "good" rosettacode task (usually) asks for implementation of a specific algorithm, with links to wikipedia/mathworld/oeis and some if not all expected results, whereas projecteuler is "solve this puzzle", with no algorithm and never any answer. The former encourages comparable submissions (the primary purpose of this site), and things that could (with due care) be re-used elsewhere, whereas the latter encourages highly divergent solutions and almost always non-reusable code.
::Not a good fit, and clearly totally disrespectful to just dump them verbatim here. There is also a subtlety that I too missed on first reading:
::That page grants some permission to publish a solution, but in no way expresses permission to ask for other solutions on a different site.
::The only exception would/might be to further explore some clearly specified approach. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 02:30, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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