On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 8:21:52 AM UTC+1, Lawrence Woodman wrote:
> Hello Commodore fans,
>
> You may have heard of the Advent of Code challenge.  For a bit of fun I
> decided to do day 6 of the challenge on the Commodore 128 using its built
> in Basic.  It took days to calculate but it was great to be able to
> complete it on this machine.
>
> I had to use Vice though as my real machine has a memory fault which I
> need to get around to solving.  The advantage of Vice was that
> I could easily transfer the code between the emulator and my Linux box to
> put it in a github repo and on my website.
>
> If you're interested here it is:
>
https://techtinkering.com/articles/advent-of-code-2018-25-days-25-languages/#day6
>
> Best wishes
>
> Lorry
>
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Technical Tinkering

I copied the code you published into VICE and was disappointed to get
nothing but an OUT OF DATA ERROR IN 6050.
Trying to figure out what's missing, I realized that the site you linked to
merely gives a tiny example that's already solved in place.
So I guess they give the additional problem data only to those who register
(which I won't).
Does the challenge consist in writing a fully general solution to the
mathematical problem? Or are they content if your program can solve the
given major problem?
Would it be a lot of work to devise a problem instance that is too hard to
solve by hand but still can be solved by a standard Commodore 128 within a
few minutes?

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