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