More details in the compete post: https://www.tumblr.com/lavenderhorns/705277666010464256/every-now-and-then-i-remember-that-malbolge-exists?source=share
In the soap opera General Hospital, Colonel Sanders of KFC makes a guest appearance because someone is trying to kill him to obtain the secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices. He knows Malbolge and is able to disarm the destruct sequence.
… I… what?
I thought you were kidding.
That soap opera apparently has 15000 episodes and has been airing since 1963…
Apparently, this is the code for a Hello World program in Malbolge:
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H%c#DD2^WV>gY;dts76qKJImZkj
Looks like the backticks in the program messed up the formatting a bit, here’s it with fixed formatting.
(=<`#9]~6ZY327Uv4-QsqpMn&+Ij"'E%e{Ab~w=_:]Kw%o44Uqp0/Q?xNvL:`H%c#DD2^WV>gY;dts76qKJImZkj
Not that it’s any more intelligible. :D
What steps did you take to fix the formatting?
(Save me the Unicode identifier / dive into console :) )
The Base3 arithmetic alone makes me deeply upset
Base36 is where it’s at! Super divisibility, 0-Z keyspace, and “10” is a Square that’s also the product of two squares.
Plus you can count to “40” (144) on your hands!
How do you count in base36 on your hands? I seem to only have 10 (decimal notation) fingers
You can count up to 1023 in base 2 using your fingers to represent 0s and 1s.
In theory yes, in practice…fingers don’t like cooperating with the combinations of bent and up that you can get by doing that
Each hand is one base-6 digit.
Despite this design, it is possible to write useful programs.
Interestingly, this applies to C++ too.
So is there a 9th circle? Would that be a programming language where the only way to compile would be to speak op-codes out loud in the correct sequence & cadence into a microphone?
