saqqarah 1.0.1

Calculation pyramid generator

Saqqarah

Description

This little software creates calculation pyramids puzzles (mainly addition).

Principle for addition pyramid: Boxes should contain numbers, if a box is on top of two boxes it contains the sum of the two boxes below.

Exemple of Saqqarah run

With solution

Features

• Window (Qt5 Based) interface or command line interface, at your preference
• Output modes: -- image, with as default png format (others format are possible: see the Python Image Library PIL documentation) -- Tikz code (for inclusion in latex documents)
• Choice of size of the pyramid.
• Choice of numbers range for the base line.
• Choice of seed for the random generator This allows you redo the same pyramid multiple times.
• Choice of difficulty level.
• Choice of resolution (ignored in tikz mode)

Warning

If you choose an important size, 10 or more, the creation can be long: saqqarah looks for solution randomly until it find the wanted difficulty.

Usage

saqqarah -h

give you a brief summary usage