Re: Anti-golfing
[email protected] (Phil Carmody)
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
--- Ton Hospel <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Peter Makholm <[email protected]> writes: > > In a momentary[0] insanity I came up with the concept of anti-golf. > Can't be done. Yup. > e.g. I can convert the program to a turing machine and run it on that. > then i can run that turing machine on a universal turing machine. > Repeat as often as you want. > > If you use timelimits or memory limits, i just use other underlying > abstract machines that are faster/more compact > > And there are no general programs to analyze general programs, so > whatever rules you specify, it will have cracks. Except if you add an artificial upper bound. Say 10 of each letter/number, and 20 of each punctuation character. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but it might just work (at all, that is, not well). Phil ===== First rule of Factor Club - you do not talk about Factor Club. Second rule of Factor Club - you DO NOT talk about Factor Club. Third rule of Factor Club - when the cofactor is prime, or you've trial- divided up to the square root of the number, the factoring is over. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/