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+2013 marked the "The Twenty Second International Obfuscated C Code Contest"
+===========================================================================
+
+Copyright (C) 2013, Landon Curt Noll, Simon Cooper, and Leonid A.
+Broukhis. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational
+or non-profit use is granted provided this copyright and notice are
+included in its entirety and remains unaltered.  All other uses
+must receive prior permission from the contest judges.
+
+
+Standard IOCCC stuff
+--------------------
+
+The IOCCC has a web site and now has a number of international mirrors.
+The primary site can be found at,
+
+>	<http://www.ioccc.org/>
+
+Use make to compile entries.  It is possible that on non-Un\*x / non-Linux
+systems the makefile needs to be changed.  See the Makefile for details.
+
+Look at the source and try to figure out what the programs do, and run
+them with various inputs.  If you want to, look at the hints files for
+spoilers - this year we included most of the information included
+by the submitter.
+
+Read over the makefile for compile/build issues.  Your system may require
+certain changes (add or remove a library, add or remove a #define).
+
+Some ANSI C compilers are not quite as good as they should be.  If
+yours is lacking, you may need to compile using gcc instead of your
+local compiler.
+
+
+Remarks on some of the entries
+------------------------------
+
+We believe you will again be impressed with this year's winners. 
+
+This year, several 8 people won 9 people won 15 awards.  For the
+first time in the history of the contest, one person, Yusuke Endoh,
+won 4 times while Adrian Cable won 3 times!  It is also worth noting
+that Chris Mills previous win was in 1993.  Welcome back Chris!
+
+We, the judges, were very surprised by this as many of the multiple
+winners submitted very different styles of entries.
+
+This year was the first time the IOCCC size tool was used.  Entries
+had to print a value 2053 or less when the -i flag was used.
+
+Several people discovered an undocumented feature in that
+certain comments such as:
+
+	///*
+
+or:
+
+	*\
+	/
+
+were not correctly parsed by the tool.  The guidelines stated:
+
+    In cases where the above summary and the algorithm implemented by
+    the IOCCC size tool source code conflict, the algorithm implemented
+    by the IOCCC size tool source code is preferred by the judges.
+
+so this abuse was allowed (and encouraged).  The judges hope that
+the IOCCC size tool author will patch the tool to block this kind
+of size abuse in future contests.
+
+There were some outstanding entries that did not win.  Unfortunately
+some very good entries lost because they:
+
++ were way way oversize and didn't even attempt to justify their
+  excess by a clever abuse of the rules
+
++ depend on a single obfuscation trick
+
++ could only be run on a particular vendor's platform
+
++ were very similar to previous winners
+
++ didn't work as documented
+
+We hope the authors of some of those entries will fix and re-submit
+them for the next IOCCC.
+
+There is a risk in submitting an entry that is similar to a well
+used theme by previous winners.  Previous winners set a very high
+bar.  A new winner must not only compete against other submissions
+from the current year, they must also excel over similar winners
+in some particularly impressive way.
+
+Final Comments
+--------------
+
+Please feel free to send us comments and suggestions about the
+competition, this README or anything else that you would like to see in
+future contests.
+
+If you use, distribute or publish these entries in some way, please drop
+us a line.  We enjoy seeing who, where and how the contest is used.
+
+If you have problems with any of the entries, AND YOU HAVE A FIX, please
+send us the fix (patch file or the entire changed file).
+
+For the latest information on how to contact the IOCCC Judges please visit
+
+>	<http://www.ioccc.org/contact.html>
+
+For news of the next contest watch:
+
+>	<http://www.ioccc.org/>
+
+
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