At 09:13 AM 2/16/00 +0200, Nikolai Golovchenko wrote:
>May  be  you miscounted instructions again? <G> I squeezed one instruction
>(10%) out. I wonder how did you find this method, intuition or what?

[snip]

>;Idea: Scott Dattalo <www.dattalo.com>
>;"Hint: n^2 = sum of the first n odd integers.(e.g 9 = 3*3 = 1 + 3 + 5)"

   Nikolai, when I saw this I was trying to remember if I was ever taught
it `way back when'. I had to just sit back and admire the simple elegance
of it. Of course, we've come to expect that from Scott ;-)

   There use to be more of these challenges where Scott, Andy W, Dmitry,
and a few others went at it. It was an absolute delight to behold ;-)

   Now that you've joined the `fray' and I think your fellow countryman
Dmitry still checks the list, maybe we will see more of this.

   - Tom


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Tom Handley
New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)