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::: Indeed, the task should be defined in the task page. You can not expect people to go to some other site and read lengthly forum conversations in order to find out what to do. Of course it does help a bit if there is a solution done by the person who defined the task in some language. But not everybody knows every language.
::: Indeed, the task should be defined in the task page. You can not expect people to go to some other site and read lengthly forum conversations in order to find out what to do. Of course it does help a bit if there is a solution done by the person who defined the task in some language. But not everybody knows every language.
::: --[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 13:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::: --[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 13:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

: I think we should assume that the format is as in the example input file readings.txt. That is:
:* Field separator = single Tab character
:* Values are always given with 3 digits after decimal point (no scientific notation)
:* There are always 24 value/flag pairs in a line. (But if there were less, then just calculate those.)

: The original message in AWK newsgroup talks about counting gap length inside a single line. The implementations here find the longest gap that spans over multiple lines. I guess we can do that as it has been done in the existing implementations.
: --[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 14:16, 11 November 2008 (UTC)