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Re:The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge by noglorp on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:11PM (#2654763)
I still don't follow. Digit value rather than ASCII code... you mean Base64 digit value? If so, do you just ignore the pad char? (I mean... by "non-digit leaves" you are referring to the leaves represented by '=' and only those?)

EDIT: I understand now... jeez that was a run-around! Ascii encoded decimal! Thanks for the clarifying replies all over.

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Re:The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge by zwieback on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:18PM (#2654798)
I think it's literally one ASCII code (byte) per each of the 1023 nodes in the tree. Any time there's a non-digit in one of the leaf positions you ignore it.
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Re:The ReadyForZero Programming Challenge by drdo on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:22PM (#2654817)
There's no Base64, it's just regular ASCII, for each leaf that has an ASCII character '0' through '9', you sum 0 through 9 respectively.
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