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+# Most underscored argument
+
+Ferenc Deak  
+<fritzone@gmail.com>  
+
+
+## Judges' comments:
+### To build:
+
+    make deak
+
+### To run:
+
+    ./prog
+
+### Try:
+
+    Changing bounding box coordinates in the source to explore
+    various regions of the fractal.
+
+### Selected Judges Remarks:
+
+We consider this entry a tribute to all "Abuse of the C preprocessor"
+and Mandelbrot fractal drawing entries we've seen over the years.
+
+We liked the use of unary notation facilitated by variadic macros.
+
+## Author's comments:
+### Portability
+
+The application was written on a standard Ubuntu 14.04 and tested with
+gcc 4.9.1 and clang 3.5 on 64 bit system (though this should not matter).
+The application makes no assumption regarding any system specific settings,
+and it only needs a console to run. The provided Makefile is just to have
+an easy compilation. I don't see any problems porting it to different
+compiler/system as long as it supports the C99 standard.
+
+### The application
+
+The purpose of the application is mainly to illustrate the weird possibilities
+of the C preprocessor, than to be a full featured console mode Mandelbrot
+drawer. There are tools much better suited for drawing fractals.
+
+The usage of recognizable elements from the C programming language in the
+application source code is intentionally kept to a bare minimum. If this phrase
+would not be true, the application would be the following:
+
+            double                                 _[]={-2
+            ,1,-1.3                ,1.3,  0,         0,0,0
+            ,0               ,0,50, 80,     0,0,0     ,255
+            ,               8,0};    int      main       (
+                           int j) {if (j==  1 ){ if(
+                   _[12]      >_[10]  )_[17]=1 ;}  if
+               (_[13] >_[11     ] ||_[17]==1)  return
+             ;_[6]   =  _ [13] / _[11]*(_[1]-_[   0])
+            +_[  0];  _ [7]=_[12]/_[10]*(_[3]-_[2] )+_
+            [2];_[8]=_[9]=_[14]=0;l2:_[4]=_[8] * _ [8]
+            ;_[  5]=  _ [9]*_[9];_[9]=2*_[8]*_[9]+ _[7
+             ];_[8   ]  = _ [ 4 ]-_[5]+_[6];_[14   ]++
+               ;if((_ [14]<     _ [15])&&(_[4]+ _[ 5]
+                   <_[16      ])) goto l2;  putchar(
+                           " #@*+   "[( int)  _[14]%
+            5             ]);_ [13   ] ++ ;   main       (
+            0)               ;_[12]++;      _[13]       =0
+            ;if(_                [17]    !=1)      putchar
+            (0xa);                               main(1);}
+
+The application expects no parameters, the only way you can change the behaviour
+is to modify the source code at the indicated location: the line
+`/* <-- Configure here: X1, X2, Y1, Y2 */` is intentionally not obfuscated so
+that the adventurous programmer can manually modify the coordinates of the
+fractal to be drawn on the screen.
+
+### Compiler warnings
+
+Yes, unfortunately there are compiler warnings of the kind "initialization makes
+integer from pointer without a cast" the provided Makefile automatically
+disables them.
+
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