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Answer 1

What Smart Kid♦ said.

I fully agree and would like to add that it's a very good feature to have related questions and follow-up questions. While the right sidebar automatically suggests related questions, it's always a good thing to link related questions if you think it's important enough to mention. This also shows you did a good research on your issue.

For example:

questions/1337/my-general-problem-solver-panics-at-main

I've written a simple problem solver that allows to basically find a solution to any problem you may have.

But when I run it:

$ solve all

it simple exits and I can not find out why. Here is the critical source:

use std::env;
fn main() {
    for problem in env::args() {
        solve(problem);
    }
}

and the stack trace:

panicked at 'called `Problems::solve()` on a `None` value', /Users/user/src/rust-buildbot/slave/nightly-dist-rustc-mac/build/src/libsolver/general.rs:4
thread '<main>' panicked at 'Some problems missing', /Users/user/src/rust-buildbot/slave/nightly-dist-rustc-mac/build/src/libsolver/general.rs:4

Any idea why it does not solve my problem? I also tried to solve it using the solver, but same issue.

questions/1342/how-to-generate-random-problems-for-my-solver

As I recently found out in my previous question about my general problem solver panicking at main, I did not have enough random problems to solve. Now my follow-up question is:

How to generate random problems for my general solver? I tried random.org/problems but received 404 errors. Also /dev/rproblem/ seems not to provide enough entropy to randomize problems for my solver. This is the basic workflow:

A very dedicated search on Google did not help either. It seems I'm the first developer trying to write a general problem solver.

And voila, your previous question will show up in the sidebar, visible for everyone:

Happy posting!