Where Can I Find Information About the 2019 Programming Competition?

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I seem to have found a programming competition øen (for 2019),but I cannot find it again. Anyone have a clue where this went?
 
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I don't know but I'm intrigued. The problems from 2019 didn't look impossibly difficult.
 
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Another fun contest is the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

A 1988 entry by Brian Westley calculates pi by examining itself.

C:
#define _ -F<00||--F-OO--;
int F=00,OO=00;main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO()
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Heh yeh. That reminds me of the language "brainf*ck". I seem to remember it being Turing complete, but I could be wrong...
 
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jedishrfu said:
Cool! Is this a team event or one on one?
From the link in post #3
sbrothy said:
About half way down the page under:
How do I participate?
If you want to participate but don't have a complete team of three please contact your local contest director so they can try to help you connect with other people without teams.
 
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sbrothy said:
Heh yeh. That reminds me of the language "brainf*ck". I seem to remember it being Turing complete, but I could be wrong...

Hah! Reading more about brainfsck I came across this expression:

"Turing tarpit".
- - - - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

That was a new one to me. The word, not the concept, mind. :)
 
Tom.G said:
From the link in post #3

About half way down the page under:
How do I participate?
If you want to participate but don't have a complete team of three please contact your local contest director so they can try to help you connect with other people without teams.

But seriously, we could make a "Physics Forum" team. Couldn't we?
 
sbrothy said:
But seriously, we could make a "Physics Forum" team. Couldn't we?
Although the website could be clearer, this is a competition only for teams from universities based in Nordic countries.
 
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Ah. Didn't read it thoroughly enough it would seem then. Shame that.
 
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