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fatai

08:01

programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/98833/…

Please look and if you have any answer, please write

Programmers

08:45

Q: Isn't this a bug?

How is this possible to have 35 views with 59 answers. Yeah, maybe each person can answer twice. But hey, 35 views, and 35 vote ups? This one's from larger view:

bug

5 hours later…

code_hacker

14:04

Hi everyone.Can anyone help with this problem?

Q: Any hints to solve this problem?

Given $n$ and $k$,find the number of pairs of integers $(a, b)$ which satisfy the conditions $n < a < k, n < b < k$ and $(ab-n)$ is divisible by $(a-n)(b-n)$. Given ($0 ≤ n ≤ 100000, n < k ≤ 10^{18}$).

combinatorics elementary-number-theory

4 hours later…

Desolate Planet

18:22

Got bored and created a 'Retro Gaming' proposal in Area 51, it'll probably be shot down within the next hour :)

2 hours later…

Major Byte

19:56

Hi, I have a question out there to which I got an answer (not the one I wanted/was looking for) and I ended up explaining quite a lot in the comments. Now I wondering if I actually should update the question instead with what is in the comments, or if I just should let it be...

user2334

@MajorByte If you're referring to this question, I'd update your question to with the clarification you left in the comments

user2334

Generally we discourage updating questions that significantly change the scope such that all the answers are invalid, but there's only one and they misunderstood your question.

Major Byte

Thanks! then I'll give a go in a while and see if I can improve the question.

Programmers

21:01

Q: Do we have a tag specifically related to the construction phase (the act of writing code)?

If we do, someone should add it to the wiki for the now-deprecated software-engineering. Options that I see: programming works, but it's too vague. It's also very similar to the name of the site. It also covers a lot of ground and could be put on a lot of questions here. construction exists, b...