Just to clarify, I am not allowed to look at the bits I’ve already written down in my notepad in order to derive something from them? Ideally, I would be sitting in an absolutely uniform room with only 2 buttons “0” and “1″ and pressing them for 150 times. Right?
It is okay for you to go back and change or insert bits. Ideally you are in a uniform room with the buttons 0, 1, switch to a point of your choice in the string you have typed, and backspace. Thanks for clarifying!
This confused me because the bits you have already written down are displayed on the recommended website https://www.charactercountonline.com/. Since bit reuse is forbidden, please disqualify my entry.
I’m not sure I understand; could you clarify? If you’re saying that the number of characters you’ve typed is displayed, that’s okay—that’s why I recommended that one. (I suppose this makes my latest comment not quite accurate but the point of that is just so you know when to stop.)
My guess is that your are not breaking the rules as I intended to state them. Or if you think you did, perhaps do it again without breaking the rules and submit with a comment saying to count the later entry?
Yeah, this is okay. But, something that wouldn’t be okay is writing some math or whatever on the side as part of calculating more bits. You can look at bits you’ve typed, but any computation you do with them must be in your head.
Note for people considering, on the official submission form each line has 30 characters (at least, on my phone it did), so you can just fill up 5 lines (or, in my case, delete about 50 extra bits after copy/pasting from my note app)
Just to clarify, I am not allowed to look at the bits I’ve already written down in my notepad in order to derive something from them? Ideally, I would be sitting in an absolutely uniform room with only 2 buttons “0” and “1″ and pressing them for 150 times. Right?
It is okay for you to go back and change or insert bits. Ideally you are in a uniform room with the buttons 0, 1, switch to a point of your choice in the string you have typed, and backspace. Thanks for clarifying!
This confused me because the bits you have already written down are displayed on the recommended website https://www.charactercountonline.com/. Since bit reuse is forbidden, please disqualify my entry.
I’m not sure I understand; could you clarify? If you’re saying that the number of characters you’ve typed is displayed, that’s okay—that’s why I recommended that one. (I suppose this makes my latest comment not quite accurate but the point of that is just so you know when to stop.)
My guess is that your are not breaking the rules as I intended to state them. Or if you think you did, perhaps do it again without breaking the rules and submit with a comment saying to count the later entry?
I mean that I re-read the characters I had already typed and used that information to generate new characters. Do the rules allow this?
Yeah, this is okay. But, something that wouldn’t be okay is writing some math or whatever on the side as part of calculating more bits. You can look at bits you’ve typed, but any computation you do with them must be in your head.
Thank you for clearing things up. Please keep my entry in the competition.
Note for people considering, on the official submission form each line has 30 characters (at least, on my phone it did), so you can just fill up 5 lines (or, in my case, delete about 50 extra bits after copy/pasting from my note app)