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(42S) A challenge of a different kind
01-19-2024, 01:14 PM (This post was last modified: 01-19-2024 01:28 PM by J-F Garnier.)
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RE: (42S) A challenge of a different kind
(01-19-2024 10:30 AM)Werner Wrote:  And here comes the challenge: enter 4095 filler bytes in as few keystrokes as possible.. we do not want to brick our 42S's keyboard.

That's a uncommon but real-case challenge !

My take:

enter (or press) in PRGM mode:
LBL "ABCDEFG"
CATALOG
CATALOG (twice, to make it permanent)
PGM soft key
then repeatedly press "ABCDE" soft key to enter XEQ "ABCDEFG", consuming 9 bytes each time.
So score is about 455 keystrokes.

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