En op 19 november 2002 sprak Ton Hospel: > In the veteran section, a lot of people found the basic > best known solution. What distinguishes Rick and Stephen > from the followers is that they found \pL trick which > allows you to shave one character from the regex. > > Jeff Moore found the \pL in the last half hour, > but has a slightly worse tiebreaker: > > Rick, Stephen: 54.563 > Jeff: 54.559 > > So Rick and Stephen win this one.
And if only the contest had been an hour longer... Just three minutes before the end I had a eureka moment. I couldn't get it working in time, but I'm sure I would have come up with a sub-60 solution; perhaps even with the winning one... Still, I would have been only third in my own eyes :-) Congratulations to Rick and Stephen! > Paul van Eldijk made an > impressive last effort and threw himself in front of the pack, > coming from pretty far behind. Unfortunately (for him) he got > trampled in the last half hour by Szeryf who still had some > forward momentum. Alas. No Dutchmen on the podium this time, for the first time since the Dutch Open in May... Finally, a big "Thank you" to the refs! It was great fun to watch the competition from the sidelines. And I'm sure that if Ton and Mtv had competed, there would have been at least one more winner... (-ugene -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate -- \\/illiam of ()ckham
