Timeline for Print a string in as few distinct characters as possible
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ with https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 19:01 | comment | added | boothby | boo! obnoxiously long solutions are always better for challenges like this. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 13:58 | comment | added | flornquake | @randomra: Good point, that does make it a lot shorter. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 13:57 | history | edited | flornquake | CC BY-SA 3.0 | shortened using @randomra's idea |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 11:21 | comment | added | manatwork | @Griffin, just generating the string instead of outputting it changes the challenge too much. For example the Ruby solution would take only 4 characters. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 7:16 | comment | added | user7486 | "readability" - heh. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 0:24 | comment | added | randomra | Using 11 and 111 too makes it shorter and elegant elegant. | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:57 | comment | added | Griffin | The challenge is to print the phrase, not write a program. I reckon you can remove the exec, say you run it on the python shell and claim 7 chars. | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:45 | history | edited | flornquake | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 35 characters in body |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:38 | history | edited | flornquake | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 4 characters in body |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:16 | history | answered | flornquake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |