Problem 1729. Can you beat the lottery again (for hardcore coder) ?

Created by Jean-Marie Sainthillier

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Claudio Gelmi on 27 Jul 2013

Sorry about that...it was only for learning purposes...

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Armando Villani on 22 Jun 2014

"rng(stream.Seed);" instead of "rng(stream.get('Seed'));" gives a lower code size of 24.

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Armando Villani on 22 Jun 2014

Why not "s.State(end)=0;" instead of "s.State(end)=s.State(end)-s.State(end);"?

Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 11 Jul 2014

At that time, I didn't understand the stream correctly...

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