GC8FNBM Programming Challenge: Prime Words
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By: CachingColorado @ | Hide Date: 01/05/2020 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
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THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE COORDINATES LISTED ABOVE. You will need to solve the puzzle to gain the final coordinates.
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Programming Challenge: Prime Words

Take a look at the linked word list.

Final Cache coordinates are provided by solving this question, "How many prime words are there?", by providing the correct answer at the Certitudes website.  See link below.

A word is defined as prime if the sum of the word's letters (A=1, B=2, etc) is a prime number.

Example of Word that is Prime

AB = 1 + 2 = 3.  3 is Prime

Example of Word that is not Prime

A = 1.  1 is not Prime

 

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

 

Bring a pen!

Congrats to SuperDolph for FTF! Extremely impressive effort!

 

Text File of 178,691 Words

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01/05/2020 By SuperDolph
FTF @ 11:30, woohoo!! It's not often that I get one of these! And to top it off, the prize was some freshly baked cookies! How awesome is that!? I enjoy these coding challenges. Python was my tool of choice for this one. After getting a few wrong answers due to some bugs in my code, the correct answer finally appeared. That was my first time using Certitude, cool way to verify puzzles. Thanks for the challenge and the fun!

01/05/2020 By IgnotusPeverell
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