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Just to clarify for all the answers so far using steam-powered machines, does your rune creating boiling hot water (so 100℃, 100% liquid) or boiling hot steam (100℃, 100% vapor) or a boiling hot slush of steam and water (so 100℃, with some part liquid and some part vapor)? (1/2)

Because energetically, this is a pretty important distinction. It takes 418.4 Kilo Joules, or 100 calories to take 1kg of water from 0℃ to 100℃, but it takes another 2.26 MEGA Joules to convert that into steam. The important numbers are that it takes 1 calorie of energy to heat 1 gram of water by 1℃ (this part is by definition), but 540 calories to take it from 1g of boiling hot water to 1g of boiling hot steam. (2/2)

Pre-1781 called; they want your "two gas giants" back.

@RyanThorngren probably means the probability at one specific point, as there are infinitely many other points to be at. However any given volume will have a finite probability. The $\Psi \left( r \right)$ of an $e^-$ in an atom measures the probability of the $e^-$ being in a thin shell of radius $r$ centered at the nucleus

Troll Answer : ~~Florida~~ France man keeps reality hopping to worse realities, arrives to an irradiated molten sea and dies

@Chococroc It is badness all the way down!

"Oh no! Earth will be ripped to shreds by tidal forces because Jupiter just swung in to inner system" No amount of fusion will solve that . And yes Jupiter did really just swung by. Everyone makes mistakes

Proposal : long long f(long m){long long a=1;long long b=0; do {b=b+a;a=b-a;} while(b%m);return b;}

New question : does depreciating the data type sort of an error? long long could give trouble

any very long data types you know of?

Can we aim for 89?

good night

oh okay

can you find 2 more to lose?

2 can come from long -> int

I can get the score to 55 if i can remove 6 bytes

Hello helllo, you there?

Nice talking to you!

I stand convinced

"removing a contiguous substring" seems to be the lynch pin

Wait

Well we are at an impasse with our definitions

I don't suppose it talks about individual bytes, but like whether the code can be golf further

@Noodle9 3 things : You can compress the two long assignments into one, shorten b=b+a to b+=a, and compress the two assignments on a into one. Ref : my answer. BTW it is not about removing statements or logic, but the bytes i.e. one may not write a shorter program which does the exact same thing

@Noodle9 Nice, but we may not expand like this as it is pristine-programming, i.e. one may not remove bytes and have the flow of control, variables, etc.

@79037662 Using your approach(with a=b-a also shifted inside the for), I can get down to 56 bytes, but it only worsens the score! Try it online!

@79037662 Quite sadly no. C++ is not clean with auto-nulled memory like that as it is designed to be run on, along with other bigger things, resource-limited real-time embedded systems. Any memory that gets allocated to our variables, we clean ourselves

@79037662 Hello again! Are we taking it on faith that a is initialized as 0?

@xax Please also add more data about tech level

@FailusMaximus OP's post suggests that there are roughly 10, or 15 of these people in a an average nation. Yes, such a raid could be effective given extreme strategic prudence, but having all 15 of your top assets in one place means that other fronts will lack these people, making them susceptible to invading parties with even one general ranker. Also it seems that such people are quite high-ranking in Magic Corps, and would have some problems putting themselves in the frontlines or cooperating with other general rankers who can compete with them for higher posts

Are there flight abilities?

@Fiksdal definition and uses and couldn't find how to enable but it is given in many guides as a sub topic

Can you enable telnet? @Fiksdal

@Fiksdal Just saw the whole guide link Problems: you may need a scheduler for osx, it requires telnet and isp routers are stupid

@Fiksdal The router firewall may view it as malware.

I think that involves enabling telnet in your router, writing a script to send a reboot command to the router, and setiing this script to run at 00:01 in a scheduler app (e.g. Task scheduler, built-in app of windows). I just can't remember how to write the script and enable telnet in stupid ISP routers.