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in reply to Golf: Movie style code cracker.

Do you measure the 2.5 minutes in a slow terminal like gnome-terminal (with an xft font) or a really fast one like linux console in text mode? For some reason I think the speed of printing the numbers will take the most time in this golf.

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Re^2: Golf: Movie style code cracker.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 15, 2008 at 06:43 UTC
    Do you measure the 2.5 minutes in a slow terminal like gnome-terminal (with an xft font) or a really fast one like linux console in text mode?

    On my command line! :)

    But seriously, people that attempt to comply with this, generally had a constant that could be adjusted (from 1e1 to 1e9) without compromising their stroke count.

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