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I can relate, lol

C translation

As mentioned by several commenters below, as of this message, the Java version of this Kata is broken. In order to pass the tests, if you compute any values that exceed the max value for an int, instead just put 2147483647 (the max value for an int) in the applicable index of the array.

I love how this beauty received 26 Best Practises upvotes, and 8 clever ones.
Too bad you have to choose: it's clearly both.

I think we should add the years before 1924 to the tests.

Water Rat (me, nice...) solved this thing in the year of the Wood Dragon.

My advice is to look into 'type coercion' and while you're at it, 'type conversion' and figure out the difference. It's quite interesting stuff.

GO sounds so special that I'm not even going to try.

Having my hands full anyway with struggling through 120,000 lines of DXL code, written by even more incompetent programmers than I am, at work.

Sorry, but I had to get that of my chest. ;-)

Dont mind me.

I got the same and "solved" it by including \t as an acceptable character. It's a bit weird.

My brain must be myjinxined after solving a few hundred of his Kata's.
I perfectly understood what he meant. :-D

It's not pretty, I know.

I'm sure this can be solved with some kind of smart bitwise magic.
And I'm also sure that I'm not smart enough to figure this out.

One of the earlier Kata's. Nowadays this thing would have been rated an 8kyu. ;-)

is that an order?