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A well known big computer factory is involved in a very secret project. The project is so secret that we cannot tell you the name of the manufacturer, but we can tell you something about the project. It is called: the Non-Deterministic Magic Holistic New Age Computer (NDMHNAC). It is a major breakthrough in thinking about computing, in that it steps away from every traditional idea in Computer Science and Hardware Design. One of the (many) abilities of NDMHNAC is to execute calculations with very large numbers very fast.
Unfortunately it has a small flaw. Its circuits are based on Magic, so its
calculations are disturbed by magic in the same way as traditional circuits
are disturbed by electromagnetic fields. As you know the numbers 3 and 7 have
strong magic. Therefore these numbers should be avoided, because they will
disturb, and eventually destroy the circuits of the machine. The algorithms
used internally in the machine never generate offending numbers. The only
problem is to ban offending numbers from input.
To that purpose a conventional machine is used as a pre-processor. This
machine should transform offending numbers to admissible numbers. (You might
wonder how a computer can give a correct answer if you jumble its input. Now
this question shows how
much you are tied to traditional thinking in computer
science. A Non-Deterministic Magic Holistic New Age Computer will give
correct answers, even if the input is wrong! (Compare this to traditional
computers giving wrong answers, even if the input is correct!)).
Numbers are arbitrarily large, non-negative integers, in decimal
representation. A number is offending if it has one of the following properties:
(NB: the number 0 turns out not to be offending).
Offending numbers are to be transformed into non-offending numbers, using
(repeatedly) the following rules:
A traditional programmer is hired to implement these rules. After reading the specification given above, he complains that it is highly ambiguous. For example, the third rule is about removing a 3. Should all occurrences of 3 be removed, or just any, or only the first one? Moreover, should every rule be applied repeatedly, or should all rules be applied, and then all rules again, and in which order? Different interpretations of the specification may give rise to thousands of different answers.
The designers of the new machine declare that they do not care, as long as a
non-offending number is obtained. Seeing that the programmer feels really
uncomfortable, they say: 'OK, just give us the largest possible answer'.
The programmer got himself an other job.
Write a program which, given a number, generates the largest non-offending
number that can be obtained by applying the rules given above.
3 999 273 2331
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