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: I find this task objectionable, if for no other reason than promoting bad typography. The unicode super-/subscripts are only good for when you don't have a way to mark up text. They are generally too small, inflexible, and unpleasant to look at. And, I don't see any practical merit in parsing such strings: I don't see why a human would carefully type out those difficult symbols as input data to a program, and if it's generated by machines, you might as well tell the machine to do a better job by writing structured/properly marked up data. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 03:00, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
==Format of the task==
:''"Given a string containing '''any''' untidy Unicode polynomial..."''
I think that mention of 'any' goes on to make this a difficult task. How about just limiting the task to parsing a very limited subset of the formats you mentioned that are more likely to be used in practice? Or how about chucking the emphasis on parsing and making the trask more about outputting an input polynomial in a normaized format? (That should address some of the issues that Ledrug pointed out above, and that I share). --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 05:02, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
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