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A code challenge is a competition for creative ways to solve a programming puzzle with an objective winning criterion not covered by other scoring tags (e.g. code-golf).
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Convert 1 into any positive integer using only the operations *3 and /2
Python, score 121 (87 - 2 + 36)
t=bin(41)
l,n,f=len(t),1,0
while bin(n)[:l]!=t:f+=1;n*=3
print(len(bin(n))-l)*'g'+f*'f'