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A programming puzzle includes a goal, a partially completed program, and rules outlining how the program can be modified. The program is specifically designed to make achieving the goal difficult. An answer to a programming puzzle takes the program and modifies it only in ways specified in the rules, so that the goal is achieved.

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Execute prints backwards

HTML + CSS <p>Line 1</p> <p>Line 2</p> <p>Line 3</p> <p>Line 4</p> CSS: body {margin-top:7em} p + p {margin-top:-4em} See jsFiddle. Edit: To conform to the rules better, here is a variant in XM …
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m3ph1st0s's programming puzzle 1 (C++)

#include <iostream> main() { const int a=0;//\ const int a=1; const int b=2; const float c=0.5; std::cout << a/b-a*c; } 17 chars. By the way, the original program doesn't compile under …
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