Dang, that's a great point. I should have made the OP more detailed to clarify that the "split" isn't always right down the middle — even if it happens to work in the [1...999] range.
I definitely didn't think of that possibly while creating the post, or while working on my personal solution.
What does your approach to this look like? Now you've got me curious about how you're going about solving it. NVM, now I see your other comment.
Dang, that's a great point. I should have made the OP more detailed to clarify that the "split" isn't always right down the middle — even if it happens to work in the [1...999] range.
I definitely didn't think of that possibly while creating the post, or while working on my personal solution.
What does your approach to this look like? Now you've got me curious about how you're going about solving it.NVM, now I see your other comment.Is anyone interested in finding another 'strange' Kaprekar number like 5292?
I searched among the first 91 Kaprekar numbers in the range [ 1..108 ]. So far, 5252 is the only one you have to split asymmetrically.
What makes 5292 so special?
4879 is 'strange', too:
4879 = 238 + 04641
Ok, I see. I've missed it because of the leading zero in the second part.
I think your OP is really ok. I also didn't expect something like this. I think I will inspect some higher Kaprekar number.
But I am looking forward to see how the JS/Java/Clojure/LISP-like solutions get fixed (and I apologize for beeing such a killjoy ;-)