Re: A new golf "Automatic Editing" has started

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Michael W Thelen wrote:

> I'm a practical guy.  To be honest, calculating the maximum size of
> theoretical inputs is not my strong point.  I understand that it's the
> responsibility of the golfer to submit solutions that satisfy all potential
> valid inputs, not just the ones in the test suite.

I agree with you there. But there is also the problem of knowing, what is
valid. For some time I actually believed that 255 iterations would be enough
for all possible cases, and since the test cases (version 6 was the last
time I checked) did not imply the opposite, I paid no attention to that fact.

> Me too :-)  I feel like I'm "defending my solution", but I think my views
> would be the same no matter whose solution was on the line.

Hey, thanks! :-)

My 43 goes even deeper into the gray area, since I only found out that my
original 43 solution (with "x255") was flawed just before I was going to
submit it. So, the new 43 (with "x2e4") was actually constructed
on the fly, after the contest had actually ended..

> Regardless, what is actually decided
> doesn't matter too much... I'll just be glad when the next contest starts!

Completely agreed :-)

  -bass

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