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Ya, I like it too. I'm stuck between that and six I'll reorganize the poll to include those two and see what people think

Edit:
Reopened and reordered

Ok, so since I will be including a custom name for your character in the game I'm creating I decided I needed to come up with a way of converting words to a list so they could be stored without the worry of someone changing a string variable. But the only bad part about doing this is that normally you are limited to a seven character limit since normally each letter is two numbers and the calculator only can hold numbers of 14 numbers in length (and then it starts rounding and such, I believe; I just know 14 is the limit ). So I did some looking around on here and found one topic, I think, that Raylin started that is about this but I wanted to create my own method for this (Raylin's topic is here).

Now, the code:

Note:
When ever you see "LW" the the code below it is really LW. Same with L2 and L1, but those are pretty well known now. Also, when you see "10^(" it is the actual token that you get when you press [2ND] then [LOG].

DelVar LWDelVar LW15?dim(L2
DelVarB1?C
Input Str1
iPart((length(Str1)-1)/7+1?dim(LW
For(A,1,length(Str1
10^(B)inString("AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz?0123456789",sub(Str1,A,1?L2(B+1
B+2?B
If B=14
Then
sum(L2?LW(C+1
C+1?C
DelVar BDelVar L215?dim(L2
End
End
C?LW(1
sum(L2?LW(C+1
Essentially what this is doing is that it makes a series of numbers based on where they are in the string. When the number gets up to fourteen numbers in length it increases the C variable by one and starts a new number to place in the next element, creating two numbers. Then C is stored to the first element to tell the decoder how many elements the word is.

Now the decoder's code:

Note:
When you see "E2" in the source code that is the scientific notation E.

"_
For(A,1,LW(1
For(B,2,int(log(LW(A+1)))+2,2
Ans+sub("AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz?0123456789",iPart(E2fPart(LW(A+1)10^(-B))),1
End
End
sub(Ans,2,length(Ans)-1?Str1
The thing I like about mine is that, one, the size of the program is basically dependent on what is in that string in the sub( command, two, it is pretty fast if I do say so myself (both the decoder and encoder; obviously though it takes longer with a bigger word) and, three, it is basically all self-working as long as you have the sub( string the way you want. No further math or anything needed (the strings just need to match).

I wouldn't doubt if there are a couple optimizations that could be made to those by the way.

Note:
There are only two downsides to this method. The first is that it is restricted to the 999 elements of a list. I don't forsee this being a huge issue though since you'd need a really long string to do that. (I think it's about 142 tokens but I'm not sure.) The other downside is that the strings that need to match must be under a hundred tokens long. This is because it uses only two numbers to store a token.

Ya, I learned about it in Government but I don't remember it all.

This is really interesting. I'll check out your code and look into it. This is interesting

I'm not sure if I'll have room to add arrows...
I was thinking of adding a sort of grayscale rectangle in the right menu to show how large the minefield is, and a rectangle with black borders to show which portion of the minefield you are currently viewing.

Ya, that's what I was afraid of. Maybe you could put arrows in the menu/info bar or something. I don't know. What ever works will be great

What about colors? Monochrome, 3-level gray, or 4-level gray?

Quote from: nemo on September 07, 2010, 11:45:24 pm

i was going to show her, but didn't after she took a student's calculator away when the student made a program to do sigma notation (i lol'd, thinking of the sum(seq([EXP],[Var],[start],[end])) trick.

That sucks. Did she give it back at the end of class though? Because if she didn't thats stealing and she isn't allowed to do that, but if she gave it back if I were in the situation i might do it.(show the program i mean)

Actually most school districts it isn't illegal. It's a very complicated system but teachers are kind of like mini-dictators that can do what they want as long as it is given back eventually. That's not a very good explanation but I can't think of how to explain it. But it basically goes along with the same thing with when teachers take cell phones and iPods and such.