From: Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T22:26:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Code Golf Challenge : Oblongular Number Spirals

Carl Drinkwater wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For those who found the 1,000 Digits of Pi problem too daunting, here's
> something a little simpler for you.  The new Code Golf[1] challenge
> involves you having to create a number spiral such as :
> 
>     1  2  3
>    10 11  4
>     9 12  5
>     8  7  6
> 
> and
> 
>     1  2  3  4  5
>    18 19 20 21  6
>    17 28 29 22  7
>    16 27 30 23  8
>    15 26 25 24  9
>    14 13 12 11 10
> 
> Seems pretty simple, huh?  The URL to the full challenge description is
> 
>    http://codegolf.com/oblongular-number-spirals
> 
> I found it more difficult than I first thought it would be, but the code
> was a lot of fun to write.  At the time of writing the best Ruby entry
> is 169 bytes.  Can you beat it?
> 
> Regards,
> Carl.
> 
> 
> [1]  http://codegolf.com/ - "allows you to show off your code-fu by
> trying to solve coding problems using the least number of keystrokes."


I'm sure I'll give it a whirl on Sunday when I have a bit of spare 
time... but I'd almost (not quite) be willing to pay money to find out 
what you did use 8 less bytes than me on the 
http://codegolf.com/vigenere-cipher

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