The Countdown Problem

We systematically develop a functional program that solves the countdown problem, a numbers game in which the aim is to construct arithmetic expressions satisfying certain constraints. Starting from a formal specification of the problem, we present a simple but inefficient program that solves the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hutton, Graham
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2002
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/226/