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From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: third place Obfuscated award
Message-ID: <843@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 01:23:51 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.843
Posted: Wed Apr 18 01:23:51 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 08:24:08 EST
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Third place:

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a[900];		b;c;d=1		;e=1;f;		g;h;O;		main(k,
l)char*		*l;{g=		atoi(*		++l);		for(k=
0;k*k<		g;b=k		++>>1)		;for(h=		0;h*h<=
g;++h);		--h;c=(		(h+=g>h		*(h+1))		-1)>>1;
while(d		<=g){		++O;for		(f=0;f<		O&&d<=g
;++f)a[		b<<5|c]		=d++,b+		=e;for(		f=0;f<O
&&d<=g;		++f)a[b		<<5|c]=		d++,c+=		e;e= -e
;}for(c		=0;c<h;		++c){		for(b=0		;b<k;++
b){if(b		<k/2)a[		b<<5|c]		^=a[(k		-(b+1))
<<5|c]^		=a[b<<5		|c]^=a[		(k-(b+1		))<<5|c]
;printf(	a[b<<5|c	]?"%-4d"	:"    "		,a[b<<5
|c]);}		putchar(	'\n');}}	/*Mike		Laman*/
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			Mike Laman
			UUCP: {ucbvax,philabs,sdccsu3,sdcsla}!sdcsvax!laman

P.S.  I hope you have the C beautifier! The program accepts ONE positive
      argument.  Seeing is believing!  Try something like "cmd 37" for an
      example.  <ed: also try cmd 4; cmd 9; cmd 16; cmd 25; cmd 36; ...>