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Ron Williams Powers-of-2 Challenge
Ron Williams has made a "powers of 2" printout on the 1403 printer.
See this Jan 28, 2006 report.
He proposes that "the rest of us" should try to code this up - in machine language -
- and I presume toggle it into the 1401 and make it work !!!
He thinks the result should be as compact as possible to win.
He thinks anyone who would stoop to Autocoder is a whimp!! :-((
Van Snyder has offered two object code (card image) solutions:
- a one card solution, but no zero suppression
- a two card solution, with zero suppression
Ron says he will send trolls after me if I tell folks Van's answers - *really*
I (Ed Thelen) freely admit to being a whimp
Heck - I was a software whimp for 30 years :-))
(A few years fixing hardware in the field (60 hours/week) convinced me an office job was better!!)
Not only that, but I'm lazy too :-((
And willing to let a software tool help me :-|
Heck - I ain't against a little automation !!!
Now - how to fire up Ron Mak's ROPE?
Hey Ron - how about a prize - maybe you could make and offer a bird?
One with feathers or a finger or something???
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