Landon Curt Noll
a2e351d175
We move the "_Thanks for the help_" out from under the "Entries" menu and under the "About" menu to better balance the menus. Besides, "_Thanks for the help_" is more **about** the IOCCC itself.
To build:
make
There is an unobfuscated version of this entry. See Alternate code below.
To use:
./konno N
Try:
./try.sh
# you can also specify numbers to try before the random and preselected ones:
./try.sh 111 222 333 444 555 666 777 888 999
Try running try.sh a number of times as the first part randomly selects ten numbers to try.
Alternate code:
An alternate version of this entry, konno.alt.c, is provided. This alternate code is an unobfuscated version of the winning code.
Alternate build:
make alt
Alternate use:
Use konno.alt as you would konno above.
Judges' remarks:
This entry is a good one-liner to analyze completely.
For extra credit, what are the minimal changes to convert it to 64-bit integers so that it could print 32 lines?
Author's remarks:
Remarks
This program outputs elementary cellular automaton patterns.
Try:
./konno 30
./konno 90
./konno 102
./konno 109
./konno 165
There are 256 (from 0 through 255) possible rules.
Obfuscation
This program uses bit operations. I think
7&O<<!o>>!o+29
is an interesting operation. This isn't equal to
7&O>>29
operation. What is the operation doing?
Limitation
This program assumes that the size of int is 4.