this randomly crossed my mind

public class blueHats {
        public static void main(String[] args){
                int year = 2014;
                double pop = 72000000000.0;
                double blue= 60000000.0;
                double coef = blue/pop;
                while(coef < 0.4999){
                        year++;
                        pop =pop + 70000000.0;
                        blue= blue + 35000000.0;
                        coef = blue/pop;
                }
                System.out.println(year);
        }
}

rolf wrote

Adnan wrote
I tried not to look at your code to try it myself. Anyway, I guess mine is too complicated so let's ditch it.

Now isn't this a copycat of your Javascript code ?

#!/usr/bin/python


population_now=72000000000
hats_now=60000000
current_year=2014

while hats_now / population_now<.4999:
    current_year+=1

print current_year

It still does take a long time :/

It is going to take forever, because although it looks like a copycat, there is something missing: you should increase population_now and hats_now in every while loop. Right now you're just increasing the year, which means that the test (hats_now / population_now<.4999) will always return true, since hats_now and population_now don't change, so the loop will run forever!

Don't worry about writing a "copycat", not to brag, but this is a relatively simple problem, so if you want to solve it programmatically and in the most simple way, you'll most probably end up with something close to what I wrote.

Adnan wrote EDIT : I guess I didn't understand the "now.year ++" part, what does it mean ?

++ is just a short-hand for += 1. I don't know if it's available in Python.