From: Paul Robinson <paul@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T00:33:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Code Golf Challenge : Oblongular Number Spirals

On 29 Sep 2006, at 15:08, Sander Land wrote:

> Only for  x*y >= 100, which is true for the majority of the test cases
> (2/3 or so), and it's only tested three times :)

Hmmmm... letter of the rules, rather than the spirit. I can tell  
you've never played cricket. :-)

> I'm familiar with PHP, but don't know any 'give me pi to n digits'
> function.

No, but there is a built-in API for getting stuff from websites,  
which is why our ruby attempts failed.

> As for getting bytes off the pi program, did you actually manage to do
> this or do you only think it's possible? For me, when thinking of a
> way to make something shorter, the result often turns out to be the
> same size (or even larger) than the original.

It was just an idea, but I will be playing golf with it over the  
weekend, and will let you know. :-)