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Flofloflo


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Posted: 03 Jan 2008 02:10:38 pm    Post subject:
Okay, I am gonna try to make a Text to Binary program, I wonder how small I can make it.Laughing
Let's just make it converting 1 letter to 1 binary code. Making it translate entire texts can;t be too difficult afterwards!

26 letters.

Z becomes 11010

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Posted: 03 Jan 2008 04:30:23 pm    Post subject:
26 letters are all we're focusing on? Saying "yes" would keep it less complicated for the sake of comparing answers afterward. Smile

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Posted: 03 Jan 2008 04:41:37 pm    Post subject:
It'd probably help to specify what form of binary the answer should be in. An actual numeric value, a list, or a string?
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Posted: 03 Jan 2008 04:52:05 pm    Post subject:
By method of straightforward conversion, I have a program that weighs 62 bytes after subtracting the length of the title. I'm now starting on a different approach that should do the same thing, but would output as a string instead of a list.

[EDIT]

Done, 89 bytes.

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Taricorp


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Posted: 03 Jan 2008 07:10:26 pm    Post subject:
Well.. I don't have a TI-BASIC solutions to this, but here's a nice little assembly solution that saves to a string (yeah, I'm a little offtopic):

Code:
;takes c as input for letter to convert, hl as pointer to string location
  ld b,8
loop:
  rl c
  xor a
  adc a,a
  add a,'0'
  ld (hl),a
  djnz loop

11 bytes! It only adds 4-5-ish bytes to read from a null-terminated string at de.
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Posted: 03 Jan 2008 08:59:55 pm    Post subject:
Hey Goose, what are you using for translations? Like does A = 00000001?
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Posted: 04 Jan 2008 03:32:49 am    Post subject:
A = 01000001
B = 01000010
C = 01000011
…
Z = 01011010

[EDIT]

Got the string version down to 85 bytes. Will press further...

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Flofloflo


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Posted: 04 Jan 2008 12:30:43 pm    Post subject:
I am so looking forward to the solution..... My program would involve tons of loops and calculations and stuff......!!!

Hmm, there is of course a great logic in the binary language, but I realy can't find out how to do this in one or two or three calculations...:P

Oh, lol, I never knew Bytes where such small Creatures; First try is something over 150 bytes, I dunno how to substract the title....
But now I can start shaving off useless bytes :lol:

133, including title! Now let's see how much I can remove still...

Can't go any further, and I can't find a place to use ans:( 130 bytes.

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Posted: 04 Jan 2008 08:53:51 pm    Post subject:
Are we allowed to use routines that other people posted elsewhere on the forum? The reason I ask is because I looked in the thread I started for routines, and somebody (Goose) has already created a routine for converting to binary. It only needs a simple modification to work for this brainteaser. Who knows, maybe Goose is already using it for his answer? Very Happy
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Flofloflo


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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 06:54:05 am    Post subject:
All I care about it that you get the smallest solution you can:)

I'll post mine, I have never used spoilers before though, so let's see if it works.
Quote:

Input Str 1
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"->Str 2
For (A,1,26
If Str = sub(Str2,A,1
A->G
end
0->A
For(C,0,4
4-C->R
G>=2^R->L
G-L2^R->G
A+L10^R->A
End

I dunno if I am supposed have the input and the definition of variables in the program, right now they are included and the program minus the name is 107 bytes.

Moved into a [­quote] to make the text more invisible. –Goose

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spandiv
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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 11:46:05 am    Post subject:
Thanks, I just wanted to make sure. Here's the routine in question:

:inString("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",Ans
:2fPart(.5int(2fPart(Ansseq(2^-I,I,1,1+int(log(Ans)/log(2

Note that the routine returns the binary number backwards to save space.

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Flofloflo


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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 12:31:28 pm    Post subject:
Could you also explain it? Surprised
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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 01:00:11 pm    Post subject:
Here's my attempts (61+name for the list, 80+name for the string):
Quote:
:64+inString("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",Ans
:int(2fPart(Ans2^seq(I,I,-7,-1

Quote:
:inString("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",Ans→A
:"10
:For(B,-5,-1
:Ans+sub(Ans,2-int(2fPart(A2^B)),1
:End
:Ans
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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 07:34:24 pm    Post subject:
Well, after a bad storm, I have the Internet again, finally.

As a list (62 bytes):
Quote:
64+inString("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",Ans
int(2fPart(Ans.5^(9-cumSum(binomcdf(7,0
I didn't backtrack enough on that one, apparently.

As a string (85 bytes):
Quote:
"010"+sub("000010100100010110011010110000", …
inString("ABEJTIRDHQCGOWNYSFMZUKVLXP",Ans),5
That's a De Bruijn cycle of order 5, prefixed with the common first three bytes.

At about the time I experienced a power outage yesterday (I was away from my computer at the time), I had a computer program targeted towards finding the seed that would make this sequence emerge with int(2rand(30. I don't know how far it went or if it returned any results at all.

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pugboy


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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 10:00:33 pm    Post subject:
DarkerLine, your string routine seems to output 7 characters, not 8... Do you know if it outputs 8, and I am doing something wrong?
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Posted: 05 Jan 2008 10:13:41 pm    Post subject:
DarkerLine's program disregards the first zero bit, which is technically still correct (especially for 7-bit characters).

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Posted: 06 Jan 2008 12:23:32 am    Post subject:
Weregoose wrote:
At about the time I experienced a power outage yesterday (I was away from my computer at the time), I had a computer program targeted towards finding the seed that would make this sequence emerge with int(2rand(30. I don't know how far it went or if it returned any results at all.
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The (only) seed that will work is 654242254, but I'm curious to see what you're doing with that.

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Flofloflo


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Posted: 12 Jan 2008 04:12:10 pm    Post subject:
Hey, I just tried it out but Instring gives me a Error: Data....
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DarkerLine
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Posted: 12 Jan 2008 04:14:51 pm    Post subject:
Well you do have to pass it the letter you want to encode. As a string in Ans is the preferred method (e.g. "A":prgmBINARY)

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