Re: Proposed scoring change

2004-08-02 Thread Danny Rathjens
Johnson, Roy R SIEP wrote: It struck me as a good idea that the minimum score should float, instead of being a constant 5. I suggest 100/number of participants. The idea is that in a contest where very few accomplish a working solution, being one of those people is worth more than one where

Triangles and More

2004-08-02 Thread Riley
Hello, All! Mtve, I thought the following short (and quite obfuscated) entry was particularly brilliant. I wanted it to be shorter so it could be the winning entry... -lp $_=s/./$z|=11x$;1x$/eg/$z/ It reminds me of someone's clever way of determining if a number is prime, which (at least in my

Re: Triangles and More

2004-08-02 Thread Michael W Thelen
* Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-02 16:51]: It reminds me of someone's clever way of determining if a number is prime, which (at least in my version) turns out to be of similar length: -l print 0|(1x pop)!~/^(11+)\1+$/ I'm writing the above from memory, so I'm not sure if it's exact.