On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Adam Spiers wrote:
> Keith C. Ivey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote a superset of:
> > Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I could only manage 31, but Gareth has a 29-stroke solution.
>
> Jasper and I were warming up last week
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> I have 72 too if I have to treat 0 and 1. If all inputs are at least 2, as
> per Jasper's mail, I can do 66.
>
I now have a 67 with all non-negative integers working properly.
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e policed anyway -- and if they want to share their
prize T-shirt around like Graeae, that's up to them. :-)
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
Someone replied to me individually:
>
> Beginners
> Veterans
> Teams
>
> ?
I rather like this idea. It would allow people to do whichever they prefer
whilst levelling the playing field [1] somewhat.
[1] Ugh, I'm mixing my sport metaphors.
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n a different topic, I'm sad to discover that the Reply-To on this list
has been turned off. But I know people have strong opinions about this...
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd be inclined to allow both in separate categories and let
> people do whichever they prefer. I think there will still be lots of
> individual entries, but if it becomes a problem you can always change it.
>
Unstyl
pecify Perl 5.6.1, warts and all.
As for not being able to paste into the form, I had this problem in
TPR(0,1), and Jerome agreed to accept my submission by email. Maybe the
judges would do the same again.
(Isn't there a way to upload a named file to the remote site? Would this be
a g
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Dave Hoover wrote:
>
> With
> both ORA and ActiveState contributing prizes (bumper stickers, t-
> shirts, and *books*)
My wife says: What's Bob going to do with so many books?
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ubmission, and drop vertically when the next
submission comes in. Also draw a line rightwards from the most recent
submission to the current time.
Oh, and I don't think golfers with only one submission appear at all at the
moment.
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only
get one copy of this, I guess you were too!
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Adam Spiers wrote:
>
> I can't afford the time required for individual play really.
>
This from someone who's joint 1st. :-)
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon,
your program, and communicate through it. I think it would be hard to
make rules which would be effictive in outlawing anything like this.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
The leader board seems to be down at the moment:
Content-type: text/html
Software error:
DBI->connect failed: Unknown MySQL Server Host 'mysql' (11) at
/home/groups/p/pe/perlgolf/cgi-bin/PGAS/leader.cgi line 37
Did BoB pull the plug in jealousy at being outplayed by Lars?
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ll see that my early solutions (107.34, 102.38)
use this $s{join1,sort/./g}. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that I
was producing hash keys like "join1dorw" for "word"! Who would have guessed
that, just by looking at the expression?
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I just want to thank Dave and the other judges for all their hard work (and
Get Well Soon, Jerome!). I know we've said it before, but now we know even
more what workload they're under. And we think we've got Golfer's Exploding
Eye...
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ar next to the name or score or something.
(I don't know whether it's useful for PGAS to flag this too -- of course it
can be deduced from the other information, but redundancy isn't always bad.)
> OK, enough chatter, I need to go spend some time with my wife and kids.
And I'v
he
slopes make it look as if I was improving very gradually for half a week,
not dramatically at the end!)
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
> Good idea. It's done.
>
>
Oooh, turquoise. Even better. Thanks!
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On 8 Apr 2002, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> Adding 8 or 9 to make all numbers from 2 to 15 into two-digit integers:
>
By the way, I had some solutions where it was better to add 98 or 99 than 8
or 9 -- then you can just pick out solutions beginning with a 1.
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he letters in $_. This is then sorted by the
sort, and two words are anagrams if and only if they agree about their
sorted letters.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jean-Pierre wrote:
>
> So : I caught the construction "sort/./g", used by 60% of the solutions, on
> the web, querying for "perl anagram".
>
Oh yes, the top link on Google is quite a clue. I didn't think of doing
that.
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number of times, just a generous upper bound.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
t; Huh?? This is the part that tripped me up. I don't understand how it knows
> if the new words are valid words.
>
Valid words? The sorted words aren't valid words, if that's what you mean.
But, for example, you can tell elvis and lives are anagrams, because for
each of th
On 9 Apr 2002, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > --
> > Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
> > "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
>
> I love this quote. It t
time.
Hang on, how many of these 1/6's played only in TPR02? You can't count them
as dropouts yet.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
ugh, this talk about elegance made me wonder whether we had any
> female golfers in any of the TPR courses. Hmm ...
>
Yes, I was wondering that. In "Human Sort", there's lots of talk of the
brilliance of one female by the name of Autrijus Tang, but she seems to have
disap
ince,
isn't it, so is St John very bilingual too?).
Rapidly heading off topic, I know.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
nadaphile. So I really do care whether Yanick lives in Ottawa or Montreal!
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
;
Have you seen Michael Cowpland's house (ex-CEO of Corel) in Rockliffe
Park, Yanick? It's well worth driving past. It sounds very like your
description...
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
Andrew, you have excelled even your own high standards.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Yanick wrote:
>
> I'm... speechless. To have my words and face
> asciissified by the maesdstro[*]! A honor that
> had been so far reserved for Larry, Golf champions
> and nameless camels... whoa, mesay, whoa.
>
You forgot Buffy.
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that would spoil the surprise. :)
>
> So I enlarged the cartoon at http://babyl.dyndns.org/.
> If anyone out there has actually had the honour of meeting
> the elusive `/anick in the flesh, can you please let me know
> if the asciification is at all realistic and life-like.
>
ind a question I have been meaning to ask. Do you
> all want to see BoB in the "High Scores per Hole" or would you rather
> see the best score by a legitimate golfer/team?
>
Or do you not want to be able to see either? :-)
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ve.
>
That's just what an alien _would_ say.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
out of my depth on this course, so I decided to discuss this
over some drinks in the clubhouse instead.
(The discussion also ranged over the international situation. We commented
how Beijing has been trying to put Taipei in its place.)
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nal, like the duplicate height field!
>
Maybe it's height sitting and height standing?
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
tarted. Unfortunately, to win you'll also need to turn
into an alien.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ton Hospel wrote:
>
> Use this database which is very extensive and detailed:
> http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp
>
That is truly amazing.
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"This is Henman's 8
on their computers for the
23 hours of internet downtime per day than play Perl golf?
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
> Stephen Turner could be considered a celebrity (though not a
> Perl celebrity) as the author of Analog.
>
And Stephen Turner gets 565,000 hits at Google.
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
>
> > Stephen Turner could be considered a celebrity (though not a
> > Perl celebrity) as the author of Analog.
> >
>
> And Stephen Turner gets 565,000 hits at Google.
>
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
>
> And the 5 byte solution:
>
> $x$
>
> I'll be impressed with the man who shows me the four byte solution.
>
1x$^T
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"This is H
ve the spaces too.
>
> Is that right?
>
The second one certainly has to be a $^T because you need a very large
number there. The first one could be anything which exists.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wi
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
>
> And the 5 byte solution:
>
> $x$
>
> I'll be impressed with the man who shows me the four byte solution.
1x$^T
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"This is Henman&#x
Please can we not discuss the problem on the list. If you have questions,
ask the judges. Thanks.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
ly someone else is just as likely to find it as
Rick or myself. Mtv has been a bit quiet this month, for example...
Rick and I are having a nice little battle for third place though. We're
exactly equal at the moment.
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Golfers and funsters will definitely want to read Larry's thoughts on the
Perl 6 regexp syntax at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html. I
almost like parts of it, though is _much_ worse for golf
than (?=PATTERN) !
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r hole sometimes is that you can try things
which would never get a look in when you only had 45 characters to play
with.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
from the same computer.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
n and Eugene the rest of us are.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
! ONE-NIL! sorry, got a bit
carried away there) get to discuss the solutions 'overnight' and us poor
Europeans wake up in the morning with a great pile of email to plough
through already.
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"This is He
.
> Somebody has to suffer whatever time of day we
> choose. Plus, Dave Hoover is in CDT (GMT-5) so I think we want to keep
> him awake and available at the time of contest open and close, just in case.
>
This is a good point, but it would still allow 12:00 or 18:00 GMT, for
Well, you've all very sweetly waited until I woke up before starting the
discussion. I'm going to thank you by annotating the top 12 solutions for
you (10 veterans and 2 beginners). So far, I believe I've saved Eugene one
stroke, and found a bug in one of the top twelve.
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> So far, I believe I've saved Eugene one stroke
>
Hmmm. If I have, I've also saved Ton one. Maybe there's some reason why it's
buggy, like it doesn't work on all machines or something.
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but when I found
that you both had, I assumed it wasn't allowed for some reason.
But why didn't the referees allow it? There's nothing in the rules about it,
is there? And surely it wasn't just the problems with submitting it, because
other non-printable characters are as ba
seful for recursion, for
example.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> I'm going to thank you by annotating the top 12 solutions for
> you (10 veterans and 2 beginners).
OK, 8 down, 4 to go, but I'm off to watch the Brazil match now. I'll finish
the rest this afternoon.
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>
> My favorite comment is the message to the referees inside Marko
> Nippula's best solution...
>
That's the message _from_ the referees, isn't it?
I liked your message in your best solution, Eugene.
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
> Well, you've all very sweetly waited until I woke up before starting the
> discussion. I'm going to thank you by annotating the top 12 solutions for
> you (10 veterans and 2 beginners).
OK, here they are. See attachment (hopefully
that "..." is special in a format.
> >
> > I was happy about two parts of my program:
> >
> > "$_=join$"x3,@F;s/(...) +/$1 /g;" (to generate the well formed text line)
> > Where even Stephen Turner only had
> > "$_=sprintf&#
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>
> En op 08 juni 2002 sprak Stephen Turner:
> >
> > sub t{lc=~y/aeiouy//.v47.s//$&/g}
> > # A subroutine to calculate the statistic. v47 is the same as '/' but has
> > # better tie break score.
>
ge
> saved me in quite a number of ways.
No, the rules didn't allow a period to occur within the word, so you're safe
on that one. But I always thought the aim was to solve the problem, rather
than merely to pass the tests.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
o I alerted the referees and they added a test
to the test program.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
t
> "..." if there's more!
Yes, it was me. I realise that you can use that, but then you have to format
the spacing of the top line yourself, and I found it was easier just to
print it by then. I was hoping to use formline with the same format for both
lines, but then the ... doe
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Dave Hoover wrote:
>
> Maybe it's the Type attribute? What would be the appropriate MIME type
> other than text/plain?
>
Try application/octet-stream. That's the default for uninterpreted binary
data.
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In the heady days of TPR01/02 we got over 100 entrants
> (and I was jostling for the lead). Now, we are
> getting only thirty and I am jostling for the
> wooden spoon. I remember predicting this would
> happen some months ago
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
>
> Well, it passes the tests (timeout is a rule, not a test).
> So the question is "will it be accepted by the referees?".
>
It seems to me that there's an easy way to test this.
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Yanick wrote:
>
> Eugène is actually a whole five strokes behind.
>
I expect Eugene has 63, but he's sitting on it until 1 minute before the
deadline so as not to spur Ton into greater feats of alienness.
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now!
(Actually, I think he missed his best chance last year. Hewitt will win the
next 6 or so.)
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
e did manage one triumph this tournament -- he became the official 1000th
golfer. I don't know if he fixed it though. :-)
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
So, last month I annotated all the top 12 solutions. People seemed to
appreciate it, but there's no way I've got time to do it again this month!
So I thought it would be interesting if players annotated their own
solutions this month. I for one would like to see what people say about
their own so
ondering how I could have used the
plague in this month's problem.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
on
> one of them.
>
No! One hole takes enough time. But maybe I'm biased because I was so bad at
the Kokakola.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
, you're screwed for life. At his current pace, Markko would need 18
> more months of monthly golf tournaments just to get back to a Y-index of 0.
>
Exponential weighting, anyone?
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"This is Henman'
d all in under 100 characters. Do the judges
still award discretionary prizes?
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
e comments:
* Can we assume that all widgets have positive size?
* I'm really struggling with the test with all those zeros in.
I'm not trying to be dictatorial here. (Maybe I'm succeeding, but I'm not
trying, honest. :-) It's just that it's a better game if people do
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Yanick wrote:
>
> Sir, consider fiery furry (or feathered, I have to check what's left
> in term of bio-ammos) retribution to be already on its way.
>
Andry ostriches as missiles. *shudder*
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Yanick wrote:
> >
> > Sir, consider fiery furry (or feathered, I have to check what's left
> > in term of bio-ammos) retribution to be already on its way.
> >
>
> Andry ostriches as mis
25)
> and base 5 instead of 25 which doubles the steps.
>
See the bottom of http://cpp-home.com/contests/16/code.cpp for another
method that only uses one lookup table. I too concluded that any such method
was too long though.
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Juho Snellman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:31:44AM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > So, the empty regexp lets $` escape. How did you discover
> > that? Was it a brilliant insight, did you already know it, or was it (more
> > likely, in my experie
of my postorder solution. It
just happened! But hopefully it's interesting to someone to see not only
what I did but a little bit of how I thought about it.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> En op 09 augustus 2002 sprak (-ugene:
> > United Kingdom-2 -
>
> Is that Stephen Turner from England and Piers Cawley from Wales?
> Should we be using UK or England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland?
>
U
4b)
> but 35 fewer solutions. It had 2 more golfers than TPR(0,4) but 97 fewer
> solutions.
>
What does this tell us? People are optimising more before submitting? How
can a course with two holes have fewer solutions than a course with just
one?
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't look too out of place.
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
and brought up in London?
>
Oh, surely the medal table is by country of residence, not nationality?
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
#!perl -i1
>
> No sense in using it, of course, since the name of the variable sucks.
>
Yes, I hadn't realised until I tried to use it in this tournament that the
$^I trick isn't as clever as it deserves to be, because $^I is the only $^x
that you can't write in only two cha
ood, but here's what I can think of:
>
> $^F/2 . I'm a bit surprised that Marko Nippula was the only other
> golfer who used $^F in factorial.pl .
>
I tried to use $^F, but I had to special-case 0 and 1, and it took too many
characters.
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> En op 9 ogustus 2002 sprak Stephen Turner:
> > Yes, I hadn't realised until I tried to use it in this tournament that the
> > $^I trick isn't as clever as it deserves to be, because $^I is the only $^x
> > t
-e'$x="st";print <$x>'
% perl -e'%x=(st=>1);print <%x>'
%x
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Stephen Turner wrote:
> >
> >
> > Can anyone explain the following? Or is it just one of those Perl quirks
> > that one frequently encounters when playing golf :-) ?
> >
> > % perl -e'@x=(st);print <@
spair. You were first equal in one of the many
sub-competitions that make Perl golf so enthralling:
Number of uses of the word 'horse'.
Andrew 3
Ton 3
Ala 2
Jasper 1
MTV 1
Refs1
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
up with that month's name. What does everyone else think?
>
Of course the referees do already come up with a name for the hole.
Personally, I would prefer to have a systematic numbering as well, though,
even if it was only the month name or something boring.
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Greg Allen wrote:
>
> $|++ -- alternately 0 and 1
>
BZZZT! It's $|-- (or --$| of course).
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"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
auspice of the Wood element.
>
That explains it! I knew there must be something special about the year
one thousand nine hundred seventy four.
> Is there really anything more to say?
>
When is the year of the flaming ostrich?
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with gaps of greater than ten point zero between each of
the four clumps.
These gaps usually fill up in the last two or three days though, in my
experience, but we'll see whether that is true this time.
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"Th
I didn't think about the problem, but I'd be very surprised if the best
solution had two "reverse"s and one "unpack" in it!
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"Reserve your 2 hour delivery time, which means you&
ld like to referee but
can't spare the time -- but that's not really helpful! Have we still got
enough willing referees to run a monthly competition. What do people think?
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"Reserve your 2 hour delivery tim
together. But
neither of them need to be on duty for forty-two hours in the week, as we've
come to expect. I would be happy to play under such a system, and I might
even be able to referee occasionally.
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"
Well, I just discovered www.googlism.com, and of course I typed in my own
name. The top result was
"stephen turner is the creator of analog"
which is good. After that came
"stephen turner is a visionary uk artist who uses elements of the natural
world as both subject and
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Ton Hospel wrote:
> Current top:
> Rick Klement 54.559
> Stephen Turner54.563
>
> So it's starting to look like we might soon have multiple players
> on the first place. In itself that would be fine, but there is only
> one prize to give
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