python coding contest

Paul McGuire ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com
Tue Dec 27 04:39:49 EST 2005


"Shane Hathaway" <shane at hathawaymix.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.2581.1135676005.18701.python-list at python.org...
>
> 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.

-- Paul





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