Shane Hathaway wrote: > André wrote: > >>For the few that might be interested, I will be posting the details of >>a 117 character long solution to the challenge on my blog >>http://aroberge.blogspot.com/. >> >>Enjoy! > > > You took advantage of prime numbers, enabling you to extract encoded > information using a single modulus operation rather than shift and mask. > Brilliant strategy. Congratulations.
Indeed. Very impressive. And thanks for posting, it was driving me nuts. Now I wonder if this could be adapted to the other, three loop strategy? It's not clear, but there are three characters that are superfulous in the current incarnation of that. Hmmm.......... -tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
