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in reply to Re^2: (Golf) LED Sign
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As a result, it doesn't wrap the last line around, leaving something like:

Yep, it's a golf, so I was trying to shave off as many chars as possible; good observation though.

I like your art deco twist on the "font". Very retro.

Funny you mention that, It happened completely by accident, when I was trying to shorten the code : )

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

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Re^4: (Golf) LED Sign
by tadman (Prior) on Jun 08, 2001 at 06:12 UTC
    Your "optimization" of (.)(.)(.) to (...) has the effect of making the letters only 3 wide instead of 4, since the duplicator [0,1,1,2] isn't working. Moving to a more compact representation would eliminate the need for this altogether.