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Jasper

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May 27, 2008, 7:27:54 AM5/27/08
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Has anyone been golfing the google challenges?

I've got the robot one to around 74 characters (not including the 'use
Math::BigInt' :))

The other one didn't seem all that interesting in comparison..

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Jasper

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May 27, 2008, 9:15:32 AM5/27/08
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2008/5/27 Bram <p...@perl.wizbit.be>:

> On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:27:54 +0200, Jasper <jasper...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone been golfing the google challenges?
>
> What challenges?

Well, that was a big assumption, then.

http://treasurehunt.appspot.com/

Two so far, more on the way, first to complete them all correctly wins
a prize. An Aston Martin, I think.


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Bram

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May 27, 2008, 8:27:01 AM5/27/08
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:27:54 +0200, Jasper <jasper...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone been golfing the google challenges?

What challenges?

Randal L. Schwartz

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May 29, 2008, 7:29:08 PM5/29/08
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>>>>> "Jasper" == Jasper <jasper...@gmail.com> writes:

Jasper> Well, that was a big assumption, then.

Keep in mind, "obvious" to you is very unlikely "obvious" to everyone else,
since we all run in different circles.

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Jasper

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May 30, 2008, 5:07:00 AM5/30/08
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2008/5/30 Randal L. Schwartz <mer...@stonehenge.com>:

>>>>>> "Jasper" == Jasper <jasper...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Jasper> Well, that was a big assumption, then.
>
> Keep in mind, "obvious" to you is very unlikely "obvious" to everyone else,
> since we all run in different circles.

I only found out about it because the guy next to me was doing them.
They do seem to be somewhat under the radar.

The third one opened yesterday. It wasn't really worthwhile writing a
program to solve it.

The robots one is still the only one I'd consider golfable. If one
allows the answers to be in non-integer format, the answer can be
pretty small - I have it around 48 with command line arguments. About
70 with the integer format required by google, and that's using
Math::BigInt.

Have a nice weekend..
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