Came across an interesting link on reddit today that claimed that you could store 256GB on an A4 piece of paper. My first reaction was: holy crap, what a great idea! I was all set to write a version up. But then you look at the numbers, and it starts to look less feasible. Taking [...]

I happened across the Shortest Sudoku Solver page, which has programs in various languages that solve the puzzle. Most of the major scripting languages clock in at anywhere from 100 to 200 characters. It means nothing, of course — it’s just elaborate puzzle solving. The C program is just about as short as Python, for [...]