Re: Arithmetic expression fitting algorithm?

Icebeing wrote:
> best approach i could come up with is a brute-force method...any math-
> heads know a better approach to this?

There is no general theory that helps much with that kind of puzzle.
You could try to short-cut the brute-force search by applying various
special rules to eliminate "obviously" bad candidates, but the work
needed to identify those cases would probably cost more than just
going ahead and trying them.
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