Re: Perl Golf Ethics

[ambrus]

I searched a lot with google because I suspected that roman number conversion is such an obvious topic that there had to be another perl golf competition about it. I didn't find anything, but if I did, I would have tried to use it in my golf solution. Thus, I think it is within the rules.

[mreece]

ton's prior solution

[ambrus]

Thanks, I've already found it. In fact shmem has linked to The Golf Book that contains the solution in this very thread.

As it turns out, 10 out of 12 of the golfers that ended up above me in the final leader-board have used one of the two magic formulas of ton.