Numbers Evaille

Description

This program is written to solve the Numbers Evaille problem:

Given a pack of cards with unique numbers and a required goal card from the pack. The cards are categorized into ranks. Find 4 cards of whose ranks differ from each other, such that the sum of the 4 cards is equal to the goal card's number.

Status

• Solving for extra cards is currently unavailable. You have to find a way to format them in the input file.
• The input file can only contain a rank per card. For cards with alternative ranks, you need to create a new input file.

Folder structure:

The project folder contains these files:

• card.py: Python file defining class Card
• deck.py: Python file defining class Deck
• algorithm.py: Python file defining algorithm to find all the combinations to make the total but haven't checked their ranks yet
• solution.py: Python solution file
• input.txt: Sample input file, currently only contains 107 first cards and their primary ranks
• output.txt: Sample output file for Card number 86
• README.md: Instruction file
• .gitignore: Git's config file to ignore unnecessary files while releasing the project

Preparation

• Install Git
• Install Python 3

How to use

• You need to install Python version 3.x on your machine, or have a python compiler in your IDE (Visual Studio, Pycharm,...).
• In your terminal, clone this repo:

  git clone https://github.com/lonhattan007/numbers_evaille.git
  
  or:

  git clone git@github.com:lonhattan007/numbers_evaille.git
  
  The second method requires an SSH key every time you pull from or push to the repo.
• Open your terminal. On Windows, press Ctrl + R, then type cmd and press Enter.
• Move into this folder:

  cd numbers_evaille
  
• In your terminal, move into this folder and run the following command:
  • Windows:

  python solution.py your_input_file_name.txt your_output_file_name.txt
  
  • Linux or Mac:

  python3 solution.py your_input_file_name.txt your_output_file_name.txt
  
  • For example:

  python solution.py input_base_107.txt output_86.txt
  
• Or you can run the program in your IDE, make sure to config your input and output files' names as arguments.
• The program will rewrite the file output.txt