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You can try to generate all possible valid expressions and evaluate them. If the result matches your target value, print it.
How can you generate all expressions? Let's start with a simplified variant of your example:
The numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 must all be used in the given order.
The only allowed operators are the binary operators +, −, × and /.
A division ...
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Unfortunately, brute force is the way to go.
Solving the problem with brute force will require two steps:
Generate all possible expressions.
Test all possible expressions.
This may sound redundant to mention, but I do so for a very specific reason. You can focus your code on brute forcing the first step and then writing the generated expressions to a file ...
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