Edit: This could be a nice demonstration for a genetic algorithm: A clearly defined fitness function yet an unknown (unknowable?) goal, and a distinct representation of the genes. I'm not sure how hereditary the fitness is though.
Further edit: Just 4 digits: (6-(8^(4/7))) 2.718658575969448 0.00037674751040306376 - I hope this is a) correct, b) interesting to someone else.
That was fun. Although I'm having trouble confirming the answer... - Also I'm meant to be packing.
http://play.golang.org/p/G_Y5SblSuv for some brute force eval :)
Edit: This could be a nice demonstration for a genetic algorithm: A clearly defined fitness function yet an unknown (unknowable?) goal, and a distinct representation of the genes. I'm not sure how hereditary the fitness is though.
Further edit: Just 4 digits: (6-(8^(4/7))) 2.718658575969448 0.00037674751040306376 - I hope this is a) correct, b) interesting to someone else.