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Friday, June 20, 2008
Can you write a highest common factor algorithm in 128 bytes?
Yes. 128 bytes. Max. Cos that's all the RAM you have?
Those were the days. Lightweight programming on 1 ton of metal.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Are we even still able to write any self executable program (let's forget about the 10^27-1 data) of this lenght? Any assembly program would still have an overhead larger than that doesn't it?
Congratulation to these "true" hackers... they made possible all this madness ;)
2 comments:
Are we even still able to write any self executable program (let's forget about the 10^27-1 data) of this lenght? Any assembly program would still have an overhead larger than that doesn't it?
Congratulation to these "true" hackers... they made possible all this madness ;)
"The first program was written by the late Tom Kilburn to work out the highest factor of a prime number."
Um, would that be itself?
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