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Alsadius comments on An attempt at a short no-prerequisite test for programming inclination - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: J_Taylor 30 June 2013 01:02:44AM 0 points [-]

I got this right, but ended up having to invent notation to keep track of the indirection in the last segment.

This is also the case for myself. I would be very impressed by anyone who did not have to do this.

Comment author: Alsadius 30 June 2013 08:28:31AM 3 points [-]

I didn't. Instead, I just kept taking the least-condition-laden part of the instruction, replacing it with a number, and repeating the operation on the newly simplified sentence.

Comment author: palladias 30 June 2013 07:02:12PM 0 points [-]

Ditto.

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