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Very nice challenge - I had to learn a bit COBOL and IBMs floating point representation before a little Python program could do the decoding.

Wow, this is a really nice challange.
I optimized my quine from 1800 chars down to 118 (and solved other small HVM challanges on the way). Still there's a bit to go... I didn't thought, that there are so many possibilities to optimize a HVM program.

Thank you, looks much better now (now it aborts after 25000 cycles - time to start optimizing the program

How many cycles can be used on the warmup challenge? The description states 25000, but with my code I get the error "too many cycles: 19102"?

Well, the difficult part was to find out, what a sexdecillion is
Anyway, with Python and httplib its quite easy to set the HTTP header.