On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Ton Hospel wrote: > > I suppose it's the \0 => binary zero ? > > If so, neither Eugene nor me missed that (see our comments), but solutions > with binary zero were not allowed this round. >
Right. I was very surprised if either of you missed it, but when I found that you both had, I assumed it wasn't allowed for some reason. But why didn't the referees allow it? There's nothing in the rules about it, is there? And surely it wasn't just the problems with submitting it, because other non-printable characters are as bad. Did they give a reason? -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
