Problem 944. Create incremental spiral WITHOUT USING EVAL or FEVAL

Created by J-G van der Toorn

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Andrew Newell on 25 Apr 2014

I can't get it to read my solution (which passes the test when I try it on my own computer).

Jan Orwat on 18 Sep 2014

Same problem.

rifat on 19 Sep 2014

I also had the same problem

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Jan Orwat on 13 Jan 2015

testsuite doesn't work since mid 2014.
Anyway, the smallest non-spiral solution there.

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J-G van der Toorn on 24 Sep 2012

Interesting. I didn't know about 'anonymous functions' until Cody came to existence. It has already paid off.
Therefore, unfortunately, I could not implement an 'anonymous function' trap in this Problem. The next one will contain one.
I am curious about the next mtree-score-hack.

Aurelien Queffurust on 9 Nov 2012

As usual, I am still impressed by your solution!

Khaled Hamed on 10 Nov 2012

I do agree that 'str2func' may be used to wrap a long solution into a much shorter size. Using an anonymous function does not reduce size, however, and should nt be trapped. Same thing goes with 'regexp', which can be used to pass a multiline calculation as one command.

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