Challenge #284: Division with Macros

[mbogusz]

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Weekly Challenge #284 in the can

[ywang7]

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First macro workflow!

[alexnajm]

Shoutout to @PhilipMannering for helping me complete this challenge! Not easy for sure...

[kelly_gilbert]

My solution is pretty similar to the others, except I also implemented it with the Generate Rows tool for a no-macro solution (just for fun!) Thanks for submitting the challenge, @patrick_digan!

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Like many others, I implemented long division.


Outer workflow (non-macro and macro solutions):

 


Iterative macro:
 

[patrick_digan]

@kelly_gilbert Very cool generate rows solutions. Reminds me of the AdventOfCode type solutions!

[kelly_gilbert]

@patrick_digan, yes, I totally learned that trick (from either you or @jdunkerley79) during Advent of Code 2019 😄

[AdhirKirtikar]

Hahahah... It's really not... "Hint: It's not 1,000,460,202,682,230,000 with remainder -442"

This one was the first answer that I got.... 😰

Really tough one, had to scratch the head intensely as I am not that good in macros yet. But finally got it after writing all the steps in excel 😬

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[rmassambane]

another one

[ArtApa]

Here is my solution:

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[apathetichell]

I know I could follow @Maskell_Rascal 's Python tool with an R big int package but the iterative macro is kind of fun.