Trying to crack the "compression puzzle challenge" was a lovely and interesting journey.

1. Oto Brglez, April 2022 / @otobrglez
TheCompressionPuzzle
Challenge
The pointless quest for be
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2. - Edg
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“Art is not what you see, but
what you make others see.”

4. The challenge.

5. Oneshallwriteaprogramthatcompressesstring
"AAABBAAC"toitscompressedform"3A2B2A1C".

7. Warm up.

15. More.

20. Expand.

24. Purists.

28. Elegance.

36. Beyond.

40. Numbers.

41. - The number of programmers artists: 39
- The number of solutions: 68
- The number of programming languages: 27
-The language / solutions breakdown: Python:
9, JavaScript: 8, C#: 5, Rye: 5, Ruby: 4, Red: 3,
Go: 3, F#: 3, Scala: 3, Lua: 2, Crystal: 2,
TypeScript: 2, Kotlin: 2, Java: 2, C++: 2, Elixir: 2,
C: 1, Swift: 1, PHP: 1, SQLite: 1, ReScript: 1, Bash:
1, Haskell: 1, MS SQL: 1, R: 1, Clojure: 1, Rust: 1

42. bit.ly/compression-puzzle
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