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:::I wonder if pinning down the font used for the numbers and arrows would help ? Defaults may differ [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 23:47, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 
:::: All characters used in the task preamble (and above), and for the REXX solution are from the Microsoft DOS (prompt) screen,   the code page used is   '''437'''.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 23:32, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 
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:: Got it – a number not shown in any of the other language contributions.
:: (A reward for early birds ? The processing cost will progressively rise for late-comers, as each of them checks all existing contributions :-) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 13:25, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 
::: Not necessarily.   I could've added more unique contributions without having to check other entries, but it wouldn't take much scrolling.   It's "thinking outside of the box", whether it be Morse code, palindromes, step structures, a Mayan number resembling a (simple) fractal, eggs and dots, something that looks rather like a sine wave, ...   the sky's the limit.   I thought it would be a fun requirement.   Cheap thrills and/or entertainment.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 00:20, 18 January 2019 (UTC)