Billboard Challenge, Part 2
June 26, 2012
In the previous exercise, we looked at a programming challenge that involved the digits of e. Solving that exercise and clicking on the indicated web site took the solver to this page:
Congratulations. You've made it to level 2. Go to www.Linux.org and enter Bobsyouruncle as the login and the answer to this equation as the password.
f(1)= 7182818284
f(2)= 8182845904
f(3)= 8747135266
f(4)= 7427466391
f(5)= __________
Don’t try to login; the account no longer exists.
Your task is to write a program to find the next number in the sequence. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 