863 B
863 B
By using each of the digits from the set, {1, 2, 3, 4}
, exactly once,
and making use of the four arithmetic operations (+
, ?
, *
, /
) and brackets/parentheses,
it is possible to form different positive integer targets.
For example,
8 = (4 * (1 + 3)) / 2
14 = 4 * (3 + 1 / 2)
19 = 4 * (2 + 3) ? 1
36 = 3 * 4 * (2 + 1)
Note that concatenations of the digits, like 12 + 34
, are not allowed.
Using the set, {1, 2, 3, 4}, it is possible to obtain thirty-one different target numbers of which 36 is the maximum, and each of the numbers 1 to 28 can be obtained before encountering the first non-expressible number.
Find the set of four distinct digits, a < b < c < d
, for which the
longest set of consecutive positive integers, 1 to n, can be obtained,
giving your answer as a string: abcd.