On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 8:21:52 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Woodman wrote:   
   > Hello Commodore fans,   
   >   
   > You may have heard of the Advent of Code challenge.  For a bit of fun I   
   > decided to do day 6 of the challenge on the Commodore 128 using its built   
   > in Basic.  It took days to calculate but it was great to be able to   
   > complete it on this machine.   
   >   
   > I had to use Vice though as my real machine has a memory fault which I   
   > need to get around to solving.  The advantage of Vice was that   
   > I could easily transfer the code between the emulator and my Linux box to   
   > put it in a github repo and on my website.   
   >   
   > If you're interested here it is:   
   >   
   https://techtinkering.com/articles/advent-of-code-2018-25-days-25-languages/#da   
   y6   
   >   
   > Best wishes   
   >   
   > Lorry   
   >   
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   I copied the code you published into VICE and was disappointed to get nothing   
   but an OUT OF DATA ERROR IN 6050.   
   Trying to figure out what's missing, I realized that the site you linked to   
   merely gives a tiny example that's already solved in place.   
   So I guess they give the additional problem data only to those who register   
   (which I won't).   
   Does the challenge consist in writing a fully general solution to the   
   mathematical problem? Or are they content if your program can solve the given   
   major problem?   
   Would it be a lot of work to devise a problem instance that is too hard to   
   solve by hand but still can be solved by a standard Commodore 128 within a few   
   minutes?   
      
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