From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T10:57:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Symbolify (#169)


From: "Alex LeDonne" <aledonne.listmail@gmail.com>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Wouter Smeenk <woutersmeenk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/7/11 James Gray <james@grayproductions.net>:
>>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:16 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:
>>>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Dana Merrick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Haha, I just did it and my solution just happened to be 42 characters.
>>>>
>>>> damn - i've usurped!
>>>
>>> Mine was 28 characters, with normal whitespace usage.
>>>
>>> James Edward Gray II
>>
>> I managed to squeeze my solution in 19 characters and 23 with normal
>> whitespace usage.
>>
>> Wouter Smeenk
> 
> I found a 19-character, 23-with-whitespace solution as well, thanks to
> your inspiring post, Wouter.
> 
> My golfed solution which also handles negative numbers is 39
> characters, 51 with whitespace.
> 
> These both pass both of the provided tests - they really build
> strings, as James indicated his does. No cheating here...

Wow...  Nice...

My ultra cheezy cheat version is 18 characters... I'm amazed
people are coming up with such short non-cheat versions :)


Regards,

Bill