Cody Boone Ferguson
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Renamed some FAQs (typos and/or other things). Fix a number of typos in various files (including markdown format errors). Rules and guidelines should be relatively good although as there is a lot to get through and not much time left maybe I missed something (I also kind of cheated doing the final checks with the guidelines rather than going through them all again). The next/try.sh and next/try.alt.sh scripts have had updates as well and the next/Makefile.example was modified too. The index.html page now has an anchor for goals of the contest so that the goals in the rules could simply link to it in index.html. Although some text had to be added (and some corrected) a reasonable amount of text was also removed as it was elsewhere or was extraneous in some way.
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tr.v. -cated, -cating, -cates.
1a. To render obscure.
1b. To darken.
2. To confuse: his emotions obfuscated his judgment.
[LLat. obfuscare, to darken : ob(intensive) + Lat. fuscare,
to darken < fuscus, dark.] -obfuscation n. obfuscatory adj.
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