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nice challenge that was. the problem was not to compute all 256^4 possibilities, but to find the right one. first i tried to list those with the most letters, but nothing meaningful there. (yes, because i forgot the spaces) then i searched for strings with "answer" in them, both capital an...

there exists no such thing as comments in HVM true, but then the code isnt readable after a few lines... its easy to change the python file to accept comments, e.g. i added def Comment(): global ProgramCounter while Code[ProgramCounter] != '\n': ProgramCounter += 1 ProgramCounter += 1 to the defini...

got it now, shorter program is accepted... though it looks awful
think i also forgot to delete the comments, since the original HVM just throws "invalid instruction" when encountering comments

I am also having difficulties with the Exclusive Or Challenge. I wrote the code, and did not bother about how much cycles it takes.. my solution is now about 3300 characters long, and it works fine on my computer. But when i enter my solution and click "submit", i am downloading the chal.p...