The Two-zero-one-five puzzle was intended as a Kolmogorov-complexity code-golf challenge: the task is to generate and print arithmetic expressions for as many numbers between 0 and 100. Unfortunately, I'd overestimated the size of the output (and underestimated the size of a winning program), meaning that the best solution is probably to simply print a pre-calculated, compressed set of answers.
Given that this was clearly not the intent of the problem, can anyone suggest a way to salvage the challenge without being unfair to anyone who started working on it in good faith?
Some possibilities:
- change it from code golf to first solution (though then orlp has probably already won, with a solution similar to one i'd written beforehand)
- increase the number of solutions to be output (though orlp thinks that the most programs for solving this are likely to be too big to golf enjoyably)
- turn it into pure code golf with a minimum number of expressions (e.g. 75) allowing people to golf the program more aggressively similar to Four fours puzzle.
- do nothing and leave it as a compression challenge
