I have a Mathe-crap-matical friend. Who keeps digging into graves of dead formulas and equations and all possible Math related stuffs.
Since I started understanding Mathematics (that it’s not my cup of tea), I tried to stay away from it.
Now, that enthu creature mailed me his requirement. He says he “eat mathematics”, I prefer to stay away from such guys. But as a good friend I read his mails.
His requirement was to create a program. His requirements are:
N is a natural number falling in range [1 - 999999]
X is a number given by user with range [6000 - 20000]
You have to write a program such that you find a number N whose square root or cube root is such that the first digit of X comes in the Xth decimal place and second digit of X comes in the (X+1)th decimal place and so on…
e.g. user enters 12…
then the number N would be such that CubeRoot(N) or SqRoot(N) = dddd.ddddddddddd12
You may write program in any language.
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Check screen shot to understand what it does [note the name]:
maths program
Alright, I understood the dooms day is closing in… Did you notice the decimal places correction he was asking? 6000!! Damn…
Any ways, I chose perl and accomplished the task. I’m not sure how and why he need this thing but still I hope it rested his soul. 
This post is for people like me who have such math-e-manic friends.
You may download my script my_mathematics_pgm.pl.
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I hate MATHS!!!
So who is that maniac that made u to write such a program…
Man!! He is a mathe-maniac for us but Genious indeed; I lost 4 chess games continuously against him…