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Choosing a random element from a list of unknown length (View Thread) - qbguy on Nov 2, 2009

(ROT13ed URL for solution [Scheme]) - Anonymous on Nov 2, 2009

*This Forum is now open for new challenges. (View Thread) - OP on Oct 18, 2009

Become a member to post in unmoderated Forums. (View Thread) - INFO on Aug 2, 2009

Jumble Revisisted (View Thread) - lawgin on Apr 15, 2009

Easy - Anonymous on Apr 15, 2009

*So what's the answer? - lawgin on Apr 15, 2009

PLEASE DON"T PAY ATTENTION TO THE ANONY-HOLE! - NYFB! on Apr 15, 2009

* Lol, I guess capital single quote is double quote? - qbguy on Apr 16, 2009

*Tee hee, I guess that would work.......... - Clippy on Apr 16, 2009

*working on it - Iain on Apr 16, 2009

*SiemensAG - David on Apr 20, 2009

Congratulations - lawgin on Apr 20, 2009

* AG stands for Aryan Germans......... - Clippy on Apr 21, 2009

* No, it stands for Aktiengesellschaft - German Police on Apr 21, 2009

Make a program using markov's chains (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Apr 7, 2009

* How bout make a woman using Markov's chains? - Clippy on Apr 7, 2009

in screen 2 :) ? - Lisztfr on Apr 8, 2009

* Go get dosemu - qbguy on Apr 8, 2009

Didn't you say that the linuxzauruses have ARMs? - Ben on Apr 8, 2009

I didn't think dosemu ran on ARM - qbguy on Apr 8, 2009

Markov Chain of 2, with high probability - Tim on Apr 8, 2009

Graphical example of a Markov chain - lawgin on Apr 10, 2009

*That is not graphics. That's ASCII text. - Clippy on Apr 11, 2009

*How about graphical art of a low calibre? - lawgin on Apr 11, 2009

Challenge: Figure out what this program prints (View Thread) - qbguy on Apr 1, 2009

* N54 might have added a spurious line break before the closing quote - qbguy on Apr 1, 2009

* LOL @ spurious! It could be anywhere....or everywhere. - Clippy on Apr 2, 2009

* easy, Hello World (or some variation of capitals) - Tim on Apr 3, 2009

Solve this equation (View Thread) - lawgin on Mar 22, 2009

* 1994? Did you find it in the bottom of a bird cage? - Clippy on Mar 22, 2009

*Yes, I wish the birds would catch up on their reading - lawgin on Mar 22, 2009

That's a tough problem - David on Mar 24, 2009

There was a winner - lawgin on Mar 24, 2009

Correction - lawgin on Mar 24, 2009

* Numbers are amazing only because there are so many of them. Primes actually helped. - Clippy on Mar 25, 2009

*but what means the gap in the numbers ? - Lisztfr on Mar 26, 2009

It's a copy/paste thing - lawgin on Mar 26, 2009

Solution - Anonymous on Mar 24, 2009

Looks good, but I can't confirm - lawgin on Mar 24, 2009

Linux bc works - Anonymous on Mar 25, 2009

*Nice--I'm convinced - lawgin on Mar 25, 2009

I remember when i was little boy (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Mar 21, 2009

* It is called a Proportional Divider tool - Clippy on Mar 21, 2009

It's called a pantograph - qbguy on Mar 21, 2009

Sounds familiar to me - Lisztfr on Mar 21, 2009

* What version of QBasic do you use? - Ben on Mar 21, 2009

* Is this another SCREEN 2 adventure? - Clippy on Mar 21, 2009

huh, yeah... - Lisztfr on Mar 22, 2009

Here is my program.... - Lisztfr on Mar 22, 2009

Less crapy.... - Lisztfr on Mar 22, 2009

A brilliant shadow - Lisztfr on Mar 23, 2009

Calculate PI with the Monte Carlo algorithm (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Mar 13, 2009

* I'll put $100 on the red 3 - Clippy on Mar 13, 2009

nice idea :) - Lisztfr on Mar 13, 2009

Not very accurate, but a start - lawgin on Mar 13, 2009

AARrrrrrrrr! Doubles AGAIN? Forget those French gamblers. - Clippy on Mar 13, 2009

DEFDBL vs. DEFSNG - lawgin on Mar 13, 2009

Glad it worked better - Clippy on Mar 13, 2009

*Vive la France - lawgin on Mar 13, 2009

I wonder too - Lisztfr on Mar 14, 2009

OK Here - qbguy on Mar 13, 2009

* Linux /dev/urandom gets 3.142 correct using 10 million rounds. - qbguy on Mar 13, 2009

*Wow! No wonder those Monte Carlo casinos have money! - Clippy on Mar 13, 2009

*try doing it without RND - lawgin on Mar 13, 2009

result changes - Lisztfr on Mar 14, 2009

This is worse :( - Lisztfr on Mar 14, 2009

Precision limitation of the algorithm - Lisztfr on Mar 14, 2009

fundamental limits - Tim on Mar 14, 2009

A cheater's failed attempt - lawgin on Mar 15, 2009

Actually, the built-in C rand() function worked pretty well - qbguy on Mar 15, 2009

I don't suppose you could have put that in the C forum with a link? - Clippy on Mar 15, 2009

Decimal to fraction converter (View Thread) - Anonymous on Mar 10, 2009

*lawgin forgot to log in! - lawgin on Mar 10, 2009

A solution - David on Mar 11, 2009

OK, but doesn't work for general case - lawgin on Mar 11, 2009

* This sounds like a "fixed" challenge. Just "Lawg In" and show us your answer. - Clippy on Mar 11, 2009

It is using the method of continued fractions - David on Mar 12, 2009

Why that answer and not the exact - qbguy on Mar 11, 2009

I should have stayed anonymous - lawgin on Mar 11, 2009

Dunno.......I got nothing running it! - Clippy on Mar 11, 2009

copy/paste error...sorry - lawgin on Mar 11, 2009

* Nice! Seems pretty accurate too. - Clippy on Mar 11, 2009

Errrr, close but no cigar... - Pete on Mar 11, 2009

Fixed I hope......... - Clippy on Mar 11, 2009

not quite - lawgin on Mar 12, 2009

DIM dx AS SINGLE and it is fixed for that. But it may need more. - Clippy on Mar 12, 2009

*I agree, see response to David below - lawgin on Mar 12, 2009

Perhaps you over simplified? - Clippy on Mar 12, 2009

I think this one has run it's course - lawgin on Mar 13, 2009

What about 1279/1036 - David on Mar 12, 2009

you're adding the same proportion - lawgin on Mar 12, 2009

I think I know what is going on - David on Mar 13, 2009

That about covers everything - lawgin on Mar 13, 2009

5x5 Puzzle (View Thread) - lawgin on Dec 31, 2008

5x5 Puzzle by Lawgin. - I could solve it in one move, if you allow me to glue the pieces. - Pete on Dec 31, 2008

Cheating is discouraged, Pete - lawgin on Dec 31, 2008

solved - qbguy on Dec 31, 2008

Yes, you are right - lawgin on Dec 31, 2008

* Sounds like a cute game to make. - Clippy on Dec 31, 2008

Here is a crude version - lawgin on Dec 31, 2008

Solver - qbguy on Dec 31, 2008

Very cleverly done - lawgin on Dec 31, 2008

the game is called Lights Out - Anonymous on Feb 23, 2009

Here's a graphical/mouse version... - TheBOB on Feb 24, 2009

Nice enhancement Bob...thanks - lawgin on Mar 10, 2009

Re: 5x5 Puzzle - Tim on Feb 25, 2009

Speed of Prime numbers test (View Thread) - drew on Feb 12, 2009

Generating primes to 100000 takes less than 1 second - qbguy on Feb 13, 2009

* Show us the code QBguy - Clippy on Feb 17, 2009

* For that I used the Linux 'primes' program in the bsdgames package - qbguy on Feb 17, 2009

We've done the prime challenge a few time already - David on Feb 23, 2009

Port Liquid War to QB (View Thread) - Artelius on Feb 1, 2009

Challenge: rewrite PRINT USING using PRINT (View Thread) - Anonymous on Dec 5, 2008

* We don't talk to anonymous people usually! - Clippy on Dec 5, 2008

*As QB64 now supports PRINT USING, I declare myself the winner of this challenge! - Galleon on Jan 29, 2009

*make a nice ascci art clock or anym (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Jan 24, 2009

Some datas - Lisztfr on Jan 24, 2009

Draw a rotating line (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Jan 20, 2009

* Like a hand on a clock? You need SIN and COS with radians. - Clippy on Jan 20, 2009

Rather like a wheel - Lisztfr on Jan 20, 2009

* ... A cycloid - Lisztfr on Jan 20, 2009

It may appear like that to the eye. - Clippy on Jan 20, 2009

Thansk, i tried this little code :) - Lisztfr on Jan 21, 2009

Try this one - Clippy on Jan 21, 2009

Palmtop too slow - Lisztfr on Jan 23, 2009

I had this same question not to long ago, - Ben on Jan 20, 2009

Test is a shape is open or not (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Nov 19, 2008

Can the shape's size be estimated before testing begins? - MONTREALER on Dec 6, 2008

Wouldn't that be cheating? Are we talking SCREEN 2 here? - Clippy on Dec 6, 2008

Re: Test is a shape is open or not - Tim on Dec 12, 2008

Simple example - Tim on Dec 15, 2008

Very nice - Lisztfr on Dec 21, 2008

Stacks and queues - Tim on Dec 21, 2008

*PAINT is also a flooding tool imho - Lisztfr on Jan 4, 2009

* Especially if there is a pixel missing in your border! - Clippy on Jan 4, 2009

Challenge: produce all variations of Sudoku (View Thread) - AlGoreIthm on Aug 6, 2008

983 bytes - qbguy on Aug 19, 2008

Looks interesting - - AlGoreIthm on Aug 20, 2008

QBguy = Still no revision for this challenge - AlGoreIthm on Dec 25, 2008

The output won't fit on your hard drive - qbguy on Dec 26, 2008

Yes, understood - - AlGoreIthm on Dec 31, 2008

Draw a Windows bootscreen (View Thread) - qbguy on Dec 25, 2008

easy - Tim on Dec 26, 2008

File size is "kilobytes" (View Thread) - qbguy on Nov 26, 2008

OCR in qbasic... (View Thread) - Lisztfr on Nov 16, 2008

analogy - Lisztfr on Nov 16, 2008

Just use POINT and set a grid - Clippy on Nov 16, 2008

true - Lisztfr on Nov 16, 2008

Another thing - Lisztfr on Nov 16, 2008

Unfortunately POINT is slow - Clippy on Nov 16, 2008

quite complexe - Lisztfr on Nov 17, 2008

Only doing some statistic should suffice - Lisztfr on Nov 18, 2008

Other idea - Lisztfr on Nov 19, 2008

300 pixels per inch? - Clippy on Nov 19, 2008

I think he was referring to OCRring text on paper - qbguy on Nov 19, 2008

*Yeah, I don't know where this thread is heading, truthfully. - Clippy on Nov 19, 2008

Heading toward character recognition - Lisztfr on Nov 21, 2008

* That is why I thought packing binaries would be better - Clippy on Nov 21, 2008

* Make sure you ship your packed binaries early or they might not get there for X-mas. - Pete on Nov 23, 2008

*Create a GOTO program (no ON ERROR) that cannot be done otherwise. (View Thread) - Clippy on Jul 23, 2008

Does ON PLAY count? - qbguy on Jul 23, 2008

* oops that was on gosub not on goto never mind - qbguy on Jul 23, 2008

* That may be impossible. (But hey who do I look like, Alan Turing?) - Tim on Jul 23, 2008

Yes, it's impossible - Dean Menezes on Jul 24, 2008

Is this what you mean? - Clippy on Jul 24, 2008

Any program with GOTOs can be rewritten without... - Artelius on Jul 24, 2008

* Never saw you use it, but that is the crux of the challenge :) - Clippy on Jul 24, 2008

Classic counter example is errorhandling, e.g. emulate exceptions. - Marco V on Nov 16, 2008

GOTOs can be replaced with loops. - Solitaire on Oct 31, 2008

Some better explanation for this one ? - Lisztfr on Nov 2, 2008

Please indicate a questioned QB function in your titles - Clippy on Nov 2, 2008

This debate never really goes away... - MONTREALER on Nov 9, 2008

* It really is not a debate. It's is a fact that GOTO is not necessary! - Clippy on Nov 9, 2008

Montrealer: Thanks to your feedback, I found a flaw in my code. - Solitaire on Nov 9, 2008

I LOVE anonymouse.org like eating ****! (View Thread) - ZIP2 on Oct 6, 2008

* Flagged - language - Clippy on Oct 24, 2008

simple equation (View Thread) - lawgin on Sep 30, 2008

Solution - qbguy on Sep 30, 2008

I got a different answer at abcd = 1029 in QB - Clippy on Sep 30, 2008

Fairly fast solution - Artelius on Oct 1, 2008

You know I can't resist a challenge - David on Oct 2, 2008

*valde velox - lawgin on Oct 5, 2008

Fun challenge - 'Hello World' (View Thread) - Solitaire on Mar 16, 2006

*someone check the ip to make sure that's the real Solitaire - mennonite on Mar 16, 2006

What part of my "Hello World" is bigger than your "Hello World" did you not unde - , D. Central on Mar 16, 2006

I is Not Interested! LOL!! - Mac on Mar 17, 2006

*Good one, Mac! Most inefficient. - Solitaire on Mar 17, 2006

Here's my entry just to start the ball rolling. I'm sure someone can top this. - Solitaire on Mar 16, 2006

Best least efficient and longest I can do: - ComputerGhost on Mar 16, 2006

I made another 'cause I was bored: - ComputerGhost on Jun 22, 2008

Program that creates and runs a program. - Michael Calkins on Mar 17, 2006

Heh - TheBob would like your entry a lot - Mac on Mar 17, 2006

Blast you iorr5t! (Had to throw you're hat in the ring, heh?) What part about... - Pete on Mar 17, 2006

Hoping the 'you're' will bait Ild�rest! (Also, something wrong with N54.) - Pete on Mar 17, 2006

The sad thing, Pete.... - Mac on Mar 18, 2006

Oh, that is sad. BTW - Did you know NORAD runs on Windows? - Pete on Mar 18, 2006

*missles (sp) = missiles. (Oooh 'I' hates Clippy, Pete.) - Clippy on Mar 18, 2006

*lmho - Michael Calkins on Mar 18, 2006

*MC, that's the most humble opinion I've ever not read. (Imho.) - Pete on Mar 18, 2006

Oh, that's an L, not an I as in: LMHO=Laughing My Head Off... - Pete on Mar 19, 2006

*I said that some fonts make them hard to distinguish. I did NOT suggest change. - Michael Calkins on Mar 19, 2006

*As I am using Verdana, I can tell them apart. What are you using? - Michael Calkins on Mar 19, 2006

Thank you Handy Facts and Figures Guy... - The Rock on Mar 19, 2006

* Longest code, so far, belongs to Pete. - Solitaire on Mar 18, 2006

when i was a newbie, i made mistakes like this, and i've seen other newbies do it too - mennonite on Mar 18, 2006

it didn't let me post it all :D here's the rest (THIS is why you need gosub chander :D - mennonite on Mar 18, 2006

for those wondering, that loads, and yes even was saved in, basica ;) - mennonite on Mar 18, 2006

*Even longer than Pete's - Solitaire on Mar 18, 2006

well... :-( - Michael Calkins on Mar 18, 2006

*haha: KB, not MB... goodness, you wouldn't believe how many times I mix up KB, MB, GB - Michael Calkins on Mar 18, 2006

*Hey Mac, we just discovered that mennonite's real name is George Heller! - Pete on Mar 18, 2006

*nah, my code is easier to debug. it's just a #### to reenter! - mennonite on Mar 18, 2006

Must I 'de-optimize' everything you do? - Pete on Mar 18, 2006

*Does that mean we have to declare Bill Gates the winner? - Solitaire on Mar 19, 2006

*we don't have to declare anything- he won before you came up with the compo - mennonite on Mar 19, 2006

* I believe the word you're looking for is "pessimize" (or pessimise if you're in the UK) - qbguy on Apr 23, 2008

This writes the ASCII values to files :D - KristopherWindsor on Mar 17, 2006

Pixel Printing Hello World - Colonel O'Neill on May 5, 2006

Small, sleek, and amazingly inefficient. - The PhyloGenesis on May 9, 2006

takes a LOOOOOONG TIME TO RUN - PERSON on Jun 5, 2006

But it just has delay loops - Mac on Jul 25, 2006

A message from the Creator - Mac on Jul 26, 2006

*WOW! I love it! - The PhyloGenesis on Jul 27, 2006

* Very nice! Amazing - Ted Weissgerber on Jul 27, 2006

* Beautiful job! This one takes the prize for the most creative presentation. - Solitaire on Jul 28, 2006

Wow! HELP! - Ralph on Feb 18, 2008

* Are u in Vista or what Ralph? - Clippy on Feb 18, 2008

You probably have an operating system that doesn't support full-screen... - Pete on Feb 18, 2008

* I feel your pain - Bill Clinton on Feb 21, 2008

* Funny. I didn't know Hillary was Danish. - Thanks Boss. - Pete on Feb 21, 2008

That is funny! - Chandler on Jul 30, 2006

Here's my entry. I went for "interesting" as opposed to code size. Part 1. - Kewbie on Jul 30, 2006

Part 2 - Kewbie on Jul 30, 2006

Kewbie's entry. Part 2 - Kewbie on Jul 30, 2006

*Let me see. - The PhyloGenesis on Aug 2, 2006

* Me, too - Mac on Aug 2, 2006

*Yes, me too please! - We on Aug 5, 2006

*It called me We! It was me - Weirdalec on Aug 5, 2006

Is This Hello World Long Enough For You? - qbguy on Mar 8, 2008

Another Hello WOrld - qbguy on Mar 8, 2008

Assembly - Tim on Mar 8, 2008

disassembled code - Michael Calkins on Mar 8, 2008

*that's the worst asm code i've seen in a long time :-) - Zip on Sep 18, 2008

Make the user draw it himself - Ild�rest on Apr 26, 2008

* Well at least you got your entry in before the Mayan Calendar expired. - Pete on Apr 26, 2008

37578 byte hello program should be enough for anyone - qbguy on Apr 27, 2008

Simulate monkey on the keyboard scenario - Solitaire on Apr 27, 2008

* Yes, but you left out the function that flings poo at the monitor. - Pete on Apr 27, 2008

Requires BC and LINK... - Tim on Jun 12, 2008

* Don't try this one at home kids! Place it in the recycle bin! - Clippy on Jun 12, 2008

* It's that, er, "good" y'think? ;-) - Tim on Jun 12, 2008

NO, that dangerous.............to noobs - Clippy on Jun 13, 2008

* It doesn't destroy QB files, look closer. - Tim on Jun 13, 2008

/me sighs... - rpgfan3233 on Jun 13, 2008

I did not bother. I took it on Tim's original file warning. - Clippy on Jun 13, 2008

Re: I did not bother. I took it on Tim's original file warning. - Tim on Jun 14, 2008

Old gummy one. - E.K.Virtanen on Jun 22, 2008

Yes, it runs in QBASIC 1.1 and QBX 7.1 - qbguy on Jun 22, 2008

Yes. - E.K.Virtanen on Jun 22, 2008

Get this to work on faster computers (View Thread) - JohnK on Jan 21, 2005

This might run better - To JohnK on Jan 23, 2005

Added Speed Check, Reorganized, Made a bit more efficient - Meg on Jan 28, 2005

Hi, Meg. Nice job on Bowling program - Mac on Jan 31, 2005

Bowling Program further "improved" - Mac on Feb 1, 2005

about sms - payal.jaju on Aug 27, 2008

INTERNATIONAL OBFUSCATED QBASIC PROGRAMMING CONTEST (View Thread) - qbguy on Jan 30, 2008

You need FreeBasic for that! - Pete on Jan 31, 2008

Mr. Spock does that seem like rational code? - Clippy on Jan 31, 2008

*LOL OK, I confused Clippy. Score 1 for the home team. Who's next? - Pete on Jan 31, 2008

Mandelbrot Set - qbguy on Feb 2, 2008

Vista quits on the second line - lawgin on Feb 3, 2008

Easy to fix stupid Windows Squashed window... - Pete on Feb 3, 2008

Not bad - lawgin on Feb 3, 2008

* The formatted text feature interpreted the asterisks as meaning italics - qbguy on Feb 3, 2008

Mandelbrot Obfuscated - lawgin on Feb 4, 2008

Obfuscated program to print "NTVDM does not support a ROM BASIC"... - qbguy on Feb 10, 2008

* I just obfuscated your post LOL - Clippy on Feb 10, 2008

* is ASM cheating? :-p - Tim on Feb 14, 2008

* No! Obfuscation is cheating .................. - Clippy on Feb 16, 2008

That was fun - Ben on Aug 23, 2008

Knight's Tour (View Thread) - qbguy on Mar 21, 2008

another slow search - Michael Calkins on Mar 21, 2008

slow recursive search - qbguy on Mar 21, 2008

A modest attempt - lawgin on Mar 23, 2008

a do-it-yourself version - bp on Jul 18, 2008

i cheated... - bp on Jul 18, 2008

Faster recursive search - Artelius on Jul 24, 2008

Re: Faster recursive search - bp on Jul 26, 2008

make a point in a way that it reaches clippy (View Thread) - mennonite on Jul 24, 2008

Numbers bigger than 1,000,000,000 (View Thread) - Bikram on Jul 5, 2008

You can stretch it some by using # - Pete on Jul 5, 2008

QB64 allows 64-bit integers - qbguy on Jul 5, 2008

Oops, I forgot - qbguy on Jul 5, 2008

No approximation - Bikram on Jul 5, 2008

You can't do that - The PhyloGenesis on Jul 6, 2008

To view the number try PRINT USING - Clippy on Jul 5, 2008

Important number at the end. - Bikram on Jul 5, 2008

Optimal Keyboard layout (View Thread) - qbguy on Jun 15, 2008

* I am assuming that you already did this and think your idea is BEST. - Clippy on Jun 15, 2008

* Actually, no. - qbguy on Jun 15, 2008

* Just kidding.............. - Clippy on Jun 16, 2008

* Nah, Dvorak analyzed it first. I don't know if he thought his idea was BEST though. - Tim on Jun 16, 2008

OK, I've analyzed the dvorak layout - qbguy on Jun 16, 2008

OK, I've analysed the results for QWERTY - qbguy on Jun 16, 2008

Another one that seems to be halfway useful is Colemak. (URL) - rpgfan3233 on Jun 16, 2008

That's all we need............you guys changing our keyboards! - Clippy on Jun 16, 2008

* Dvorak was invented in 1936 which is probably before you were born too - qbguy on Jun 16, 2008

* True. Actually QWERTY was used to keep keys from jamming originally. - Clippy on Jun 16, 2008

I got the results for Colemak - qbguy on Jun 16, 2008

That bit about QB and Windows keyboard layouts... - rpgfan3233 on Jun 16, 2008

The scan codes are set to the key, not the character - Clippy on Jun 16, 2008

I found a utility that fixes the problem - qbguy on Jun 17, 2008

Ghost Posts (View Thread) - The PhyloGenesis on Jun 4, 2008

weird! - mennonite on Jun 4, 2008

Well I'm stumped at that behavior but I recall something similar years ago... - Pete on Jun 4, 2008

Now that some people have seen it - The PhyloGenesis on Jun 4, 2008

The mint challenge (View Thread) - Tim on May 31, 2008

* Mint looks great with compact code! - Clippy on May 31, 2008

How many integers? (View Thread) - lawgin on May 8, 2008

*I gather you mean INTEGER type numbers ranged from 0 to 32767? - Galleon on May 8, 2008

No - lawgin on May 8, 2008

Ok - qbguy on May 8, 2008

I have to disagree - lawgin on May 8, 2008

Some of them had 9*8 instead of 9*9*8 - qbguy on May 8, 2008

* In the FORTRAN program you spelled "(9* 9 *8 *7 *6 *5 *4 *3 *2 *1)" wrong - Spelling Police on May 8, 2008

That's confirmed - lawgin on May 8, 2008

Calculation for any base - David on May 9, 2008

Ingenious - lawgin on May 9, 2008

Yes there's e in there somewhere - David on May 9, 2008

Maybe not that surprising - lawgin on May 9, 2008

* But does it work for... base NEGATIVE TWO? - qbguy on May 24, 2008

An Energy Fantasy (View Thread) - lawgin on May 22, 2008

Well, we can already make hydrogen from water - Clippy on May 22, 2008

But that would be a net energy loss - lawgin on May 22, 2008

Just gas up your Mr. Fusion and go - Tim on May 23, 2008

EPA Rating: 77 billion MPG (City) - lawgin on May 23, 2008

* True, but the speed of light may be a problem with water. - Clippy on May 23, 2008

That car would have to have one hell of a radiator! - Pete on May 23, 2008

* I bet you could use one of your decoy houses for the tornado - qbguy on May 24, 2008

Fibonacci Calculator (View Thread) - lawgin on May 1, 2008

* Tip for those doing the challenge: the 1000th Fibonacci number is 209 digits long. - rpgfan3233 on May 1, 2008

*That's a wot of wabbits! - Elmer Fudd on May 1, 2008

Re: Fibonacci Calculator - LaananFisher on May 1, 2008

I used strings instead - lawgin on May 1, 2008

Re: I used strings instead - LaananFisher on May 1, 2008

Re: I used strings instead - lawgin on May 1, 2008

I couldn't resist the challenge - David on May 1, 2008

Nicely done - lawgin on May 1, 2008

Direct calculation - David on May 2, 2008

It works for negative numbers too - lawgin on May 2, 2008

For math wizards: How can you establish equidistant locations on earth... (View Thread) - Solitaire on Apr 26, 2008

NASA, nah, not even close. They only make movies of moon landings. Google, maybe... - Pete on Apr 26, 2008

My Solution for Random Point on Earth - qbguy on Apr 26, 2008

* (They would be random if QBASIC's RND was truely random) - qbguy on Apr 26, 2008

qbguy... How would you rewrite the c= line in this equation for QB? - Pete on Apr 26, 2008

Atan2 means different things in C and Excel - qbguy on Apr 26, 2008

* Thanks.. This stuff is easier in JavaScript. So when to expect Solitaire Earth? - Pete on Apr 26, 2008

* The javascript atan2 is the same as the excel atan2 or mathematica atan2 I think - qbguy on Apr 26, 2008

Well this turkey no workie... - Pete on Apr 26, 2008

One test... - Ild�rest on Apr 26, 2008

Version using MysticShadows's degrees minute second converter - qbguy on Apr 27, 2008

* Missing North and South for latitude? - Pete on Apr 27, 2008

*Keep in mind longitude is either East or West (180 each); latitude either North or South. - Solitaire on Apr 26, 2008

Since we're talking abuot lattitude and longitude ;-).. - MystikShadows on Apr 27, 2008

Function that converts decimals to degrees, minutes and seconds - Alter Ego on May 1, 2008

I GOT A CHALLENGE (View Thread) - jeff on Apr 28, 2008

Re: I GOT A CHALLENGE - Tim on Apr 29, 2008

* OK, give the challenge already - qbguy on Apr 29, 2008

*YOU are a challenge Mr Dictionary! - Clippy on Apr 30, 2008

M$ Challenge (View Thread) - lawgin on Apr 20, 2008

Can't do it. The N54 censor bans it.. Wait, I have it: Frostomic! - Pete on Apr 20, 2008

lawgin. you're ticking me off on this one. I wish the company name was: Microsolt. - Pete on Apr 20, 2008

How about... What do you call an Irish-Canadian? - Pete on Apr 20, 2008

May I have the envelope, please... - lawgin on Apr 21, 2008

I'd like to thank the Academy... I mean I'd like to, but I'm familiar with costiform. - Pete on Apr 21, 2008

Costiform - David on Apr 21, 2008

Yeah, yeah - lawgin on Apr 21, 2008

* Don't knock Vista on other boards because people who like it will flame you. :P - rpgfan3233 on Apr 21, 2008

I suspect these people to be shills - David on Apr 21, 2008

The answer is "QBASIC has performed an illegal operation and will shut down" - qbguy on Apr 21, 2008

Take your pick, or start with one of these combinations for any new ideas: - Solitaire on Apr 22, 2008

That's kind of fun - lawgin on Apr 23, 2008

Unique Structures of Cubes (View Thread) - qbguy on Apr 11, 2008

A Question - lawgin on Apr 12, 2008

An Answer - qbguy on Apr 12, 2008

Expressive Numbers (View Thread) - lawgin on Apr 8, 2008

My solution - not exactly short, but it is fast! - rpgfan3233 on Apr 8, 2008

Yes, very fast - lawgin on Apr 9, 2008

Write an Auto-Solver for this game (View Thread) - qbguy on Mar 30, 2008

*Need more instructions, I can't figure the game out - London on Apr 5, 2008

OK - qbguy on Apr 5, 2008

Reformat Subforums (How, Why) (View Thread) - Mac on Mar 17, 2008

Galleon's Music program in Big Programs URL - Clippy on Mar 17, 2008

Linux Forum has no exit. - Clippy on Mar 17, 2008

Just noticed that the Subforum link does not go back either - Clippy on Mar 17, 2008

Error with posting programs - The PhyloGenesis on Mar 24, 2008

* You can also do &42; - qbguy on Mar 24, 2008

* Oops, I mean * - qbguy on Mar 24, 2008

*wouldn't mind the default being unchecked for all forums. - Michael Calkins on Mar 24, 2008

*I like that it makes URL's clickable. - The PhyloGenesis on Mar 25, 2008

MacTest 1 - Mac on Mar 25, 2008

PhyloGenesisTest 1 - The PhyloGenesis on Mar 25, 2008

y2 = SIN(rd#) * radius * .8333375 - The PhyloGenesis on Mar 25, 2008

test 1 - Mac on Mar 25, 2008

Sorry, Can't fix "default" - Mac on Mar 25, 2008

666: Satan's Square (View Thread) - lawgin on Mar 20, 2008

Re: 666: Satan's Square - Michael Calkins on Mar 20, 2008

Here's what I should have said - lawgin on Mar 21, 2008

slow search - Michael Calkins on Mar 20, 2008

Slow indeed - lawgin on Mar 21, 2008

if you intend to leave it running - Michael Calkins on Mar 21, 2008

It seems tricky but it isn't - David on Mar 21, 2008

forgot to add a printout - David on Mar 21, 2008

Ben Franklin outdid us in 1750 - lawgin on Mar 21, 2008

This one does the diagonals as well - David on Mar 21, 2008

*Nice! ---and only took a couple seconds - lawgin on Mar 21, 2008

Highway 61 Revisited (View Thread) - lawgin on Mar 11, 2008

39 and 152? - Michael Calkins on Mar 11, 2008

*Um, I think that's not right. My FOR loops for zim are not right. - Michael Calkins on Mar 11, 2008

*51 and 163? - Michael Calkins on Mar 11, 2008

20 and 131? - Michael Calkins on Mar 11, 2008

You were ever so close! - lawgin on Mar 12, 2008

okay - Michael Calkins on Mar 12, 2008

Is his first name Bob? - David on Mar 12, 2008

*his first name is Dylan. his last name is something else. - Michael Calkins on Mar 12, 2008

Who will admit to remembering the 60's? (me) - lawgin on Mar 12, 2008

Dylan appeard with the Byrds once. I did this spoof on recent Fed Rate cuts that failed. - Pete on Mar 12, 2008

"some people rob you with a fountain pen" - lawgin on Mar 12, 2008

* Some people can do it sneakier in a program LOL - Clippy on Mar 16, 2008

"they are between two of the mile markers" - Michael Calkins on Mar 12, 2008

I see it this way - lawgin on Mar 12, 2008

There seems to be two solutions - David on Mar 12, 2008

You are right and wrong - lawgin on Mar 12, 2008

165 and 276 - David on Mar 12, 2008

That's correct - lawgin on Mar 12, 2008

Those annoying coins (View Thread) - lawgin on Mar 6, 2008

* Is this all about Hillary? You still have 5 coins........Republican - Clippy on Mar 6, 2008

*No, it's about the Streisand campaign of 2016 - lawgin on Mar 7, 2008

* 1, 3, 8, 20, and 45 - qgbguy on Mar 6, 2008

1,3,7,16,40 - David on Mar 7, 2008

qbguy and David, you are both right - lawgin on Mar 7, 2008

I think qbguy's answer is correct - David on Mar 7, 2008

I see your point, but I think it's a wash - lawgin on Mar 7, 2008

Why not ask Pres Streisand about a 2 cent piece? - Clippy on Mar 7, 2008

I'll drink to that - lawgin on Mar 7, 2008

* I see that the penny HAS to be there though. - Clippy on Mar 7, 2008

*Pres. Streisand has commanded - lawgin on Mar 7, 2008

* I have a better solution: 1, 5, 16, 23, 33 - qbguy on Mar 7, 2008

Chart - qbguy on Mar 7, 2008

* For 6 coins that should be 1, 4, 6, 21, 30, 37 - qbguy on Mar 7, 2008

Program for Change Problem - qbguy on Mar 7, 2008

We disagree here - lawgin on Mar 8, 2008

I have a program that does the same thing and gets 3.29 - qbguy on Mar 8, 2008

* In the table headings, # is the value in cents, #33 is the # of 33c coins, etc.. - qbguy on Mar 8, 2008

Your table has some discrepancies - lawgin on Mar 8, 2008

OK, Here - qbguy on Mar 8, 2008

Yes, 3.29 it is - lawgin on Mar 9, 2008

* Admit it QBguy, Binary coins whooped your butt! - Clippy on Mar 10, 2008

I believe I have it right this time - lawgin on Mar 8, 2008

43, 28, 10, 3, 1 gives a value of 3.36, not 3.38 - qbguy on Mar 8, 2008

Challenge (View Thread) - qbguy on Jun 23, 2007

far from perfect.... - Michael Calkins on Mar 4, 2008

Postnet Decoder (View Thread) - lawgin on Feb 5, 2008

Solution - qbguy on Feb 5, 2008

A noble effort, but... - lawgin on Feb 5, 2008

OK... - qbguy on Feb 5, 2008

* oops, change "if num>0" to "if num>=0" - qbguy on Feb 5, 2008

It's working perfectly now - lawgin on Feb 6, 2008

Re: It's working perfectly now - Michael Calkins on Feb 14, 2008

For casual observers of this challenge - Mac on Feb 6, 2008

An example - lawgin on Feb 6, 2008

Number puzzle (View Thread) - lawgin on Feb 11, 2008

A little untidy, but it works - David on Feb 12, 2008

Here's a 2 loop solution - lawgin on Feb 12, 2008

*Yes that's much neater than mine - David on Feb 12, 2008

Hydrocarbons (View Thread) - lawgin on Jan 17, 2008

Re: Hydrocarbons - Tim on Jan 18, 2008

Not quite polyominos - lawgin on Jan 19, 2008

Using My Google skills, I found this - qbguy on Jan 19, 2008

Maple,huh? - lawgin on Jan 19, 2008

Published in the 'Journal of Integer Sequences' - Wow! How specialized can you get! - Solitaire on Jan 19, 2008

*Interesting--thanks for the link. - lawgin on Jan 20, 2008

Here's a start - David on Jan 24, 2008

Pretty impressive anyway - lawgin on Jan 24, 2008

Wait, does this work? - qbguy on Jan 24, 2008

Wow!--quite an undertaking - lawgin on Jan 25, 2008

Expination of the diagram notation thing - qbguy on Jan 25, 2008

Now I see what went wrong - lawgin on Jan 25, 2008

I Have a Solution... - qbguy on Jan 25, 2008

Are you sure? - lawgin on Jan 25, 2008

Results of Check Up To 15 - qbguy on Jan 25, 2008

Here's a precompiled binary for you to play with (* URL) - qbguy on Jan 25, 2008

Nice work - lawgin on Jan 25, 2008

QBASIC Solution - qbguy on Jan 25, 2008

*Outstanding! - lawgin on Jan 25, 2008

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