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Is this a draft task?--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 14:28, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
:Not in my book. It may as well read "A programming language is a thing. See wikipedia". It could be made into a draft task if the author specified which word dictionaries (and all their corresponding codes) and which 'arbitrary' functional codes to use, and specifically here how FIGURE was supposed to know how many digits there were (if not 1). Sample inputs and outputs will help. Of course if someone (Wherrera) is working on a submission, that alone would probably provide enough details to flesh out the task description. --[[User:Petelomax|Petelomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 14:34, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
--[[User:Wherrera|Wherrera]] ([[User talk:Wherrera|talk]]) 18:47, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
:I have an implementation of one of the extended checkerboards in the reference, but wonder if it fits what the author wanted? They are vague since the page does not specify a task.--[[User:Wherrera|Wherrera]] ([[User talk:Wherrera|talk]]) 18:30, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
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:BTW, I agree of course that, having made the switch, we could encode digits in two characters rather that three though, as that would mean another change to the checkerboard as published, I imagine that’s why Wherrera hasn’t done that. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 17:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
:When I made the 98 <-> 99 swap I had in mind the common scenario where the character immediately following digits was a space or a period. This means that, with '99' as terminator, some kind of lookahead or backtracking would be needed because there will be 3 '9' digits as the last part of the sequence: "3.1" becomes "9933399929911199". Here we would at first handle '999' as coming from the text "39" but on the error that there is no '99' terminator we re-nterpret the original text to be '3x' where x is not a digit. if the swap of the indicator from '99' to '98' is made there is no need for the lookahead or backtrack in that common scenario. If the OP of the task feels that the FIG or F/L should be '99' they could specify that, or that should be an option. --[[User:Wherrera|Wherrera]] ([[User talk:Wherrera|talk]]) 18:47, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
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