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I decided that since there was so little going on in the esoteric world, I'd start another BF golf competition.
The tape is infinite on both sides and each cell can hold a value up to (but not including :-) infinity. Decrementing zero yields zero.
The challenge is to make a program that outputs Graham's number once. (That is, increment a cell Graham's number of times, move over it, and execute the output instruction.) It may not output anything else, nor may it accept input. You may include input instructions that are never executed, but that'd be stupid. :-)
Just post the MD5 hash of your program here along with the length of it. Once the contest is over in, oh, a week, just post the source code along with a proof that the program does what we expected--I'm not going to run these programs to make sure they do what they should :-D
No prizes or anything, but the winner wins, and that's good, right?
For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number
Oh, and to be sure: every cell starts initialized to 0.
Well, I'm currently typing this from an English web cafe, but it doesn't really matter even if I were home -- this task is too difficult for me and I couldn't write a solution. Not to mention that I would never get to see whether the program works correctly or not..
Anyways, since it seems there is an obvious lack of bfcomps, I hope to run the one I was going to run a long time ago. No matter even if it's too easy, although I think it isn't.
Bye.
//K
No entries, eh? Okay, let's make it two weeks after the first two entries.
Back home. By the way, I spoke too soon -- I forgot at the moment of writing my previous message that I'll be going to Australia for more than three weeks in about two and a half week. So, there'll be more delay; I don't want to rush and I don't have much time to concentrate on esolangs before the trip. I'm sorry. And I know this sounds quite like made-up story but it is true. :)
Meh. Shall we call dmoews the winner, then?
This is annoying..