[chbot] Choc fish challenege 3

[Charles Manning]

Three examples so far, all of which are obfuscated.

Why  don't want people to understand their code?

On Tuesday 30 August 2011 13:52:46 Charles Manning wrote:
> Synco. Since we're making deals, I'll lick half the choc off the fish if
> your solution doesn't work all the time.
>
> Here's an extra challenge to Propeller fans. A super-sized choc fish for
> any solution that exploits multi-cores.
>
> On Tuesday 30 August 2011 10:15:12 Synco Reynders wrote:
> > You realise asking for an explanation of how it works would cost atleast
> > one chocolate fish. :-)
> > /s
> >
> > On 30 August 2011 09:59, Charles Manning <manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 August 2011 13:48:40 Charles Manning wrote:
> > > > The last set of choc fish were handed out without ceremony at the
> > > > last meeting.
> > > >
> > > > A new choc fish challege: Write a program or make any other mechanism
> > > > to solve the n queens problem.
> > > >
> > > > There will be many prizes and categories will be created on a whim.
> > > > There will be prizes for at least the following categories:
> > > >
> > > > * Simplest C solution.
> > > > * Simplest other language solution.
> > > > * Solution not using recursion.
> > > > * Non-programming solutions
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Background
> > > > The n-queens problem is a  classical computer science problem. What
> > > > you need to do is place n queens on an nxn chess board so that none
> > > > of the queens can take eachother.
> > > >
> > > > For example, on a normal 8x8 board you must place 8 queens so that
> > > > none
> > >
> > > may
> > >
> > > > take eachother.
> > > >
> > > > An example solution for 4 queens is:
> > > >
> > > > XQXX
> > > > XXXQ
> > > > QXXX
> > > > XXQX
> > > >
> > > > Deadline: three days before the next meeting.
> > >
> > > So far, one very intriguing C entry from Synco. I've only looked at it
> > > a short
> > > while and have not quite figured out how it works.
> > >
> > > -- Charles
> > >
> > >
> > >
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