Tim Hochberg wrote: > 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.
133 characters according to 'wc -c'? If so, that will surely win style points over my one-line monster. But I bet someone's going to do better (without cheating.) Shane -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
