Re: python coding contest
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Re: python coding contest

From: André <andre.roberge@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 31 2005 - 23:02:35 CET

Christian Tismer wrote:
> André wrote:
> > For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of
> > a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog
> > http://aroberge.blogspot.com/.
>
...
> It seems to be very hard to improve. No idea if this is
> possible: One might try to re-order the character string
> a bit to change moduli, trying to get one more number in
>
> (3,14,10)
>
> to be one-digit. Haven't tried, yet, and chances are small.
>
> congrats again and a happy new year - chris

With the string of " _|" I used, starting sub-indices for each
3-character substrings are such that one need modulo 10 (or greater)
for at least two of the three indices. I have looked at a few other
combinations and, after thinking about it, have convinced myself that
it is unfortunately not possible to do. I would love to be proven
wrong! Good idea though!

Happy New Year to you all!
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:29:36 2006