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Hey ElleXuzZ, I got the same problem some time (wow, several years already) ago. Posted a similar question in another deluge-thread here: http://www.hacker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1095 Never got a reply, nor did I find a solution that is accepted. @Hippo, as you solved it and are still around, do ...

The memory isn't meant to be initialized by yourself. The memory can be initialized by the challenge itself (then it is stated in the challenge description). Cf the hvm description By default, [...] all the cells in the memory buffer set to 0. When specified, it is possible for the memory buffer to ...

since I am not on your top 50 but I am at the top 50 of the "original" ranking, I prefer that one ;-) I have never really understood the exact mechanics of the ranking. Is it described somewhere or how did you calculate the scores? EDIT: oops, the whole thread seems to be about being puzzl...

brute force? Good idea! that didn't cross my mind xD
got it. thx.

ping?

Today I had a look at the black box challenge. I know what exactly the programm is doing. Now starting with the desired output, I step backwards and try to find the correct input parameter. Doing so, I found something, where it seems to be impossible to get the right factor. Sure, it is possible, qu...

not sure if it is a spambot. This clickfast-guy had played 20 levels of mortal coil when I had a look into his profile yesterday
And I'm glad he did so. Because that was the moment I realized that mortal coil is working again

Hmm, this thread is old but for me the stated problem is still relevant. My Program works fine on some sample inputs, including the one shown on the challenge-page and an empty grid. I'm always below 50k cycles, but the Program is not accepted (not flooding correctly). Is there a limitation to the s...

fuxx, congrats on beating the game! I always like to hear about what problems and solutions others have. But since this forum is open for everyone, I fear your post is taking away too much of the challenge. Note that only about 70 people completed crossflip so far. I think it would be great if we co...

I thought about any unusual character encoding like the one of my old TI-89 calculator, since if it was a programming language or assembly code the amount of data seems to be too few. But I only get rubbish. So what is the calc meaning? Only an abbreviation? If not, there would only be the Windows c...

magnus wrote:Before easter it worked for me, but now i'm stuck on my rank...

Same here. Finished crossflip now and several challenges without a change in my rank...

BÄM! My personal Hero of the day :-) Since at my implementation startx and starty are the same, I'm just adding a row into the matrix with the diagonal element. That's also working. Now I only have to improve my memory consumption. lvl 272 needs more than my 4GiB ram. Seems like the data structure I...

@dangermouse: I have the exact same problem you described. Only that my pivoting sucks already on lvl 83. How did you get rid of that? Was it just changing the pivoting? Or did you have to do a totally different approach? I tried some more or less clever ways to find good pivots, but they all failed...

Hmm, whats wrong?
I tidied up the code a bit with python. When I run it now, i get an answer immediately. But it is not accepted by the challenge. Did I miss anything? Could someone PM me that I can tell my solution and how I got it? Don't want to spoil here...

I did this one even more lazy... i googled the first 10 output values to see if it could be a more or less known sequence, but instead of that I accidently found the already decompiled c#-code at ideone.com :D So i changed it to just "calculate" the last value, compiled it again and let it...