Archive for June, 2010

Puzzle – Hands on a Clock

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

For a given time, what will be the angle between the hour and minute hands on a clock? [ddet Answer] This is rather a long winded way of solving this, so please let me know if you have something shorter. The angle of the minute hand (from 12 O'clock): = (minutes / 60) ...

Anagrams – Python

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Write a Python function to find all the anagrams for each of a supplied list of words. For the word dictionary to find the anagrams you could use the one found on Unix or OS X boxes at /usr/share/dict/words. So for example: >>> for group in anagrams(['dog','cat','horse']): ... ...