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From:
Andrew Savige
Date:
January 5, 2007 03:39
Subject:
Re: New Golf
Message ID:
20070105113947.83355.qmail@web56406.mail.re3.yahoo.com
--- /-\ndrew Savige wrote:
> It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the
> test case:
>
> MD plus I
>
> which should produce the answer MDI.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the shortest solutions
> of szery, Sec and Jasper all fail this test case.
>
> Falling back one stroke from 4e3 to 3999 remedies.
Found another. Ted Young's 107 fails this test case:
MD minus I
which should emit:
MCDXCIX
but Ted's entry emits:
MMMCMXCIX
At least that's what I see.
As per szeryf, Sec and Jasper, changing 4e3 to 3999 remedies,
at the cost of a stroke.
Cheers,
/-\
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