On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:29:06PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: > Finally, although you'll all laugh at me, I'm down to 66 strokes on the > issue 0 challange. Not horrible for a first real golf attempt. > > How much further have you all gotten. I just want to know how far to > bury my head in the ground... :-)
I'm somewhere near 62. 58 if you don't count -e and the quotes. :) (should I show my code to the world, or keep it hidden till the contest's over?) Joy, `/anick -- @_=map hex hex||' ',qw-f4240 1388a 0 14ff1 50 4e2a 0 1f40 4e2a 320 0 50 195 4e2a-;for(@_){($i,$e)=('a',($_+0)?'':$_ );do{$_&1and$e.=$i}while($_>>=$i++**0);print reverse$e;}