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::: Possibly, but Gimmick is a bit harsh. --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 18:07, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
:::: If there can be defined a good description for "this kind of task", {{tmpl|Puzzle}}, or some subclassification from that, would seem to be appropriate. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 19:43, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
:: To be honest, I think this is a very poor task as currently structured. It goes out of its way to make things difficult with those restrictions (e.g., causing problems in languages that unify lists and arrays) and all without the purpose of achieving something that maps to a real life goal. By contrast, being able to handle very large numbers of lines (e.g., 10 million) where they may be long and where there may be many maxima, that actually means something vaguely useful. (Except that hardly never is line length of real relevance; I've never seen it for real.) If you insist on having the restrictions, make them Extra Credit points only. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 00:00, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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