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[Hans Nowak]

André wrote:
> Christian Tismer wrote:

>>It seems to be very hard to improve. No idea if this is
>>possible: One might try to re-order the character string
>>a bit to change moduli, trying to get one more number in
>>
>>(3,14,10)
>>
>>to be one-digit. Haven't tried, yet, and chances are small.
>>
>>congrats again and a happy new year - chris
> 
> 
> With the string of " _|" I used, starting sub-indices for each
> 3-character substrings are such that one need modulo 10 (or greater)
> for at least two of the three indices.  I have looked at a few other
> combinations and, after thinking about it, have convinced myself that
> it is unfortunately not possible to do.  I would love to be proven
> wrong!  Good idea though!

I don't know if this suggestion has been made already, but it seems to 
me that the end of the expression

   ...  for u in(3,14,10))

can be written as:

   ...  for u in 3,14,10)

which would shave off a character.  Tuples don't always need parentheses...

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Hans Nowak
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