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From: charlie@vicorp.UUCP (Charlie Goldensher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
Summary: How about 97 characters?
Message-ID: <1711@vicorp.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 23:52:33 GMT
References: <2102@jasper.UUCP>
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Organization: V. I. Corporation, Amherst, Massachusetts
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In article <2102@jasper.UUCP>, c415-23@alberta.UUCP (Morris Barbara L) writes:
> A friend and I tried to mimic the behaviour of the following program in
> the fewest characters possible.  The best we were able to do was 98
> characters (result of wc). Can anyone beat this?  Email for our solution.

Some friends and I mimiced the behavior of your program in
97 characters (result of wc).  Can you beat this?
Email for *our* solution.

A colleague on this project suspects that
the lower limit is the prime number 73.
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charlie@vicorp.uu.NET	--	Charlie Goldensher