a neat little project!

zskillz · December 31st, 2002, 01:02 AM

I was visiting another forum that I frequent, and this was "stickied"... anyway, I thought it looked like a neat idea. I'm not going to volunteer to grade these (nor am i qualified to), but I thought that it might be a nice mental exercise for us here in this forum.... anyway... lemme know your thoughts!

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Objective
Compute 2+2 in the most inefficient way.

Due Date
Sunday Febuary 2, 2003

Rules
* Any programming language.
* Code that doesn't help solve the objective hurts your score.
* Viruses are a sign off for your own death by members of this forum.
* Judges are allowed to participate.
* All entries will be judged upon the originality and uniqueness of the code. Points will be awarded for percieved complexity.

Needed
* People to act as judges in reading over the code and deciding which samples should be posted. Please post in this thread if you'd like to help out.

You are encouraged to use programming languages that are offbeat and not used in mass. The more original the code, the better chance you will have that it is recognized in the forefront.
Please note your code well, we all dont want to have to decipher what you wrote. It should be clear and concise.
If the code needs compiling, please include the source and binary. Specify what operating system the code runs under and if any virtual machines have to be run in the process.

There are no clear winners, The top pieces of code will be announced on the the sunday that the contest ends.

enjoy!

-Z

chris64 · December 31st, 2002, 01:13 AM

Pretty stupid but looks like fun.

vass0922 · December 31st, 2002, 01:34 AM

HA!
That's awesome
I can't EVEN imagine some of the stuff people will put up for that competition!

zskillz · December 31st, 2002, 04:34 AM

I was thinking of possibly doing some sort of recursive loop on some sort of function that had a limit at 2... as of yet, i'm not sure what it would be...

something in the form of [ 2*1/(1-x) ]... where 2 is defined as twice that of unity... which is defined as equivalence of some fraction....perhaps.... or there are functions that produce only even numbers

I thought that it might also be interesting to use the limit of digits that a long or a double number can contain to define the limit of this number before it rounds to the next nearest integer (1 of course

)

either way... those were some of my thoughts....

any of you have some ideas... I know that we have some clever and creative programmers here... much moreso that I, so I am curious!

-Z

Martee · December 31st, 2002, 02:52 PM

This could be interesting ...

zskillz · December 31st, 2002, 09:26 PM

so there has been a bit of a change in the contest rules... it appears as if it will be a little better to say "who can come up with the most creative way to compute 2+2....

anyway... i know that's not a real significant difference to us in this forum (since I would assume that most of us read the original that way), but it was worth mentioning

enjoy!

-Z

vass0922 · December 31st, 2002, 09:41 PM

hmmm well that's not as much fun.
Inefficient would of been more fun

To me that would be easier to measure.

Wizzard~Of~Ozz · December 31st, 2002, 09:46 PM

wow, I can't remember basic, there goes that one. Time to read I guess, just blow the dust off my old disks and try to remember what I was thinking when I wrote previous progs.

Inefficient would have been more fun

Oops, forgot all my disks were wrecked in a flood

Al that typing for nout.

Lost my old version of Borland Turbo Basic too

I guess it's now called powerbasic, and they still want 40$ for it.

zskillz · January 1st, 2003, 09:17 PM

the problem with the ineffeciency thing is that there is nothing creative about 2+x-x+y-y+2.... ad nauseum....

i think that the creativity thing will make it much more interesting!!

-Z

om3ga · January 1st, 2003, 09:25 PM

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Originally posted by zskillz
the problem with the ineffeciency thing is that there is nothing creative about 2+x-x+y-y+2.... ad nauseum....

i think that the creativity thing will make it much more interesting!!

-Z

right there lol, its probably hard to come up with a complicated version of 2+2, lol

You could always write some super avanced formula that results in 2 and assign that to a variable via some sort of useless bitwise copying operation then add the two! hah.. oor you could write it in FORTRAN, either way....