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Six different chars

by Anonymous Monk
on Mar 29, 2004 at 11:56 UTC ( [id://340573]=obfuscated: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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Re: Six different chars
by mtve (Deacon) on Mar 30, 2004 at 07:34 UTC

    Great! Also based on your idea it could be done with 5 chars and one space, unoptimized code follows:

      Now, can anyone get rid of that space, or find a different way to do it in 5 chars? Could this be a new form of golf?

        To be accurate, my variant is 6 chars too. So it's a nice golf to produce shortest JAPH with only 6 chars :) As usual, the only problem with JAPH is to define exact output.

Re: Six different chars
by o0lit3 (Friar) on Aug 27, 2004 at 20:25 UTC
    Days of work on this didn't get me much further. 6 characters seems to be the minimum, but (in the style of mtve), I did manage to produce a (much longer) script that uses 4 characters, one dollar sign ($), and one underscore(_). If someone could figure out how to get rid of these, I'd be much delighted.
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Re: Six different chars
by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 29, 2004 at 20:55 UTC

    Great! I wouldn't have thought 6 chars was enough.

Re: Six different chars
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 29, 2004 at 13:45 UTC
    Whoops, the title should have said six. Any chance it could be changed?
      Unless you count the one newline at the very end.

      Very entertaining.

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