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This is the second instalmend of me playing with Project Euler and PHP, you can check out problem one here. In this post I'll be using the same format as before, three different solutions to the same problem, a simple loop oriented one, a loopless one and an over engineered, object oriented one.

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I recently discovered Project Euler and fell in love. It is absolutely brilliant, concise, interesting and often fiendishly difficult mathematical problems which can be solved programatically. A little later I heard about Jorge Ortiz's post using the Project Euler problems to introduce functional programming techniques in Scala, which got me wondering how many different ways I could solve some of these problems with PHP.

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