summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/exercism/emacs-lisp/armstrong-numbers/README.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'exercism/emacs-lisp/armstrong-numbers/README.md')
-rw-r--r--exercism/emacs-lisp/armstrong-numbers/README.md32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/exercism/emacs-lisp/armstrong-numbers/README.md b/exercism/emacs-lisp/armstrong-numbers/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ce997b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exercism/emacs-lisp/armstrong-numbers/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Armstrong Numbers
+
+Welcome to Armstrong Numbers on Exercism's Emacs Lisp Track.
+If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+An [Armstrong number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_number) is a number that is the sum of its own digits each raised to the power of the number of digits.
+
+For example:
+
+- 9 is an Armstrong number, because `9 = 9^1 = 9`
+- 10 is *not* an Armstrong number, because `10 != 1^2 + 0^2 = 1`
+- 153 is an Armstrong number, because: `153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3 = 1 + 125 + 27 = 153`
+- 154 is *not* an Armstrong number, because: `154 != 1^3 + 5^3 + 4^3 = 1 + 125 + 64 = 190`
+
+Write some code to determine whether a number is an Armstrong number.
+
+## Source
+
+### Created by
+
+- @cpaulbond
+
+### Contributed to by
+
+- @benreyn
+- @vermiculus
+
+### Based on
+
+Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_number \ No newline at end of file