Paul McGuire wrote: > "Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>I'm down to 133 characters (counted according to 'wc -c') on a single >>line. It contains about 11 whitespace characters (depending on what you >>consider whitespace.) It's way too tricky for my taste, but it's fun to >>play anyway. Has anyone done better so far? Here's a hint on my >>strategy: the code contains three large integers. :-) >> > > With 1 large integer, I am down to 200 characters on 1 multiline line. I > can guess why you have 3 integers vs. 1, but I don't see how that saves you > any characters of code.
This is interesting. I have a six line solution that is 133 characters long. I use no long integers, which is what's interesting; two distinct solutions with the same length. I played with long integers for a bit, and I can see how one could use a single long integer, but no idea how one would use three. -tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
