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I think the task description should ''explicitly'' forbid (or permit, if that was the intent) reading the input twice. —[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 03:08, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
: An interesting point. Since I was not the originator of the challenge, I can't answer. My take is if it isn't explicitly forbidden and it's not a cheat on one of the restrictions it should be allowed without stating it explicitly. As there are a lot of very creative people out there the list of techniques could get quite large. --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 12:20, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
:: Well, my preference is that given that the task is to read from "standard input", and standard input may not be a seekable file, this is prohibited implicitly (and so should also be prohibited explicitly to avoid permitting semi-broken solutions). —[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 14:43, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
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