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IOCCC 2014 Now In Progress

Posted by timothy on from the lowering-the-bar dept.

leob (154345) writes In case you haven't noticed yet, the 23rd International Obfuscated C Code Contest is now in progress. A pre-announcement was made on Twitter in the end of August; the online submission tool is now available until 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC.

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  1. Crusti croc by jones_supa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A particular sin() implementation by IBM has always looked scary to me. I found it via an interesting Stack Overflow thread which talks about trigonometric functions.

  2. Re:WTF is a pre-announcement? by QuasiSteve · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An announcement that they're planning on making an announcement, with the former alluding to the same material as the latter.

    Pre-announcement:

    The @IOCCC judges are looking at their schedules to see when we might hold a new #IOCCC. Stay tuned!

    Announcement:

    The 23rd @IOCCC will be open from 2014-Sep-01 02:03:04 UTC to 2014-Oct-19 18:17:16 UTC. #ioccc #IOCCC23