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Talk:Bulls and cows: Difference between revisions
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A comment on the program's pegigree: quite a few of the supervisors were allowed to have a (CRT) terminal at home (for working after hours of course), and as a result, their kids could get on-line and play, which back then, it was quite a treat to play on a computer, and this was before home computers were common. Even at that, home computers were NOT cheap. Of course, it was against the company rules to use a company computer for such non-business thingys, but almost all the computers much very much idle after-hours and on weekends, of course. When asked by my 2nd level supervisor, I glady wrote some games on my own time in EXEC2, a language on the VM/CMS system. And who wanted to throw rocks at one's own bosses? -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 23:35, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
:Hmm. Thanks for the info on the variants where you introduce a placeholder not-a-number symbol. I guess it cannot match anything and would serve to reduce complexity when someone wants to test what they think they may know about a partial solution?
:If I were playing with more digits then I guess it would allow me to reduce the problem to something I could work out in my head. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 03:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
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