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Re: Dueling Flamingos: The Story of the Fonality Christmas Golf Challengeby primo (Scribe) |
on Dec 17, 2012 at 08:52 UTC ( [id://1009126]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I've managed to reduce the Hospelian Arabic to Roman Transform by one byte. As a lead-in, I've read most of your nodes at some point (always good reading, btw), and when I first saw Ton's amazing formula, I spent a few moments dissecting it to figure out how it did what it did. Recently, while working on a similar problem, I decided to see if I could reproduce his formula, armed with the knowledge of how it worked. A few hours of brute forcing later, and I had a result. Naturally, I wanted to check back here to see how I had done. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had stumbled upon a formula that was one byte shorter! Ton's original formula: The one byte improvement: Alternative: Even though "32e$&"%72726 is one byte longer than Ton's 5x$&*8%29628, it saves 2 bytes in the transliteration, because 01 is transliterated with IX. The alternative transliterates 012 with IXV, saving yet another byte, but it uses a modulus that's one digit longer. Update:
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