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Challenge #135: Locker Problem

Carlo_SKay
8 - Asteroid
 
jv1
8 - Asteroid
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rmassambane
10 - Fireball
 
Steph_Maddrell
8 - Asteroid

Enjoyed this one, thanks! My solution attached and screenshots below.....

 

 

Spoiler
I used an iterative macro with a Modulo (mod) function.

Main workflow:
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Iterative macro:
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duartepimentel
8 - Asteroid
 
JamesCameron
8 - Asteroid

My Effort

 

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It helped knowing that the answer was the square numbers less than 1000 - the power of Maths!

Flow

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Macro

 

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kmalone007
8 - Asteroid

Solution 

danicahui
8 - Asteroid
Spoiler
Workflow:
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Iterative macro:
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mbogusz
9 - Comet
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sonyakasenkramer
8 - Asteroid

Fun one! It made me wonder how many times the students would have to run through this exercise until all of the lockers were closed again.

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The answer is one more full iteration of 1,000 students. Seemed like that couldn't possibly be correct, and I thought I must've done something wrong when configuring my macro. But it turns out that this is just a beautiful case of symmetry 🙂