All I am pleased to announce new #1 solution for problem #5 submitted by David Wilkinson. Here is a way to translate any number of binary bytes to EBCDIC hex...
All The following 3 new solutions and 1 new problem have been contributed: * 08/11/08 * P17DW1.MLC <http://z390.sourceforge.net/contest/p17/P17DW1.TXT> /LOG ...
All * P7EH1.MLC/LOG by John Erhman - has been updated to remove work-around for AW since the latest z390 PTF v1.4.01f now has support for AW and all the HFP...
All It's been a while, but the contest will resume once z390 priority 1 compatibility RPI's are fixed hopefully in the next day or two with RPI v1.4.01f. I'm...
All Congratulations to Werner Rams for coding and testing published random number generator which ran for 5 hours on his PC without any duplications. To see...
All Congratulations to Werner Rams for solution to #19 using TRTR. Honorable mention also goes to Steve R.K. for sending email suggesting TRTR earlier the...
All Following the release of z390 v1.4.01a with new date and time callable routine named DAT that can be used for benchmark testing, I've published a first...
All Correction on the number of instructions required for solution to problem 17 - it is 827 and not 30,619. I had mistakenly published the instructions per ...
All Congratulations to Werner Rams for the first solution to problem #17. His solution compresses and decompresses 3 records using CLCL to detect end of ...
Can we have some clarification on Problem 17 in as far as any constraints on the operand field. For example, compressing: L1 CLI F1,64 Is much easier...
All Today a friend living in Finland sent me this fascinating reference on hash tables by Bob Jenkins: http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html It...
All Congratulations to Werner Hams for submitting new #1 solution to problem #11 hash table lookup using linked list for duplicates. This solution uses a few...
All I've posted correction to comments on Martin Ward's solution to #14. It supports up to 31 digit solutions. I've also posted new current problem category...
All Congratulations to Martin Ward for a very impressive solution to problem #14 using packed decimal to handle higher value Ackerman functions with up to 15 ...
All ZMFACC Assembler Coding Contest - A new problem #14 - code the Ackerman function to calc a(4,1)=65533. Code a macro assembler program to calculate the...
All I've updated the problem statement for #13 per posting on Mainframe Assembler List indicating it was incorrect. I've also posted a new solution to #13...
All Congratulations to Steve Comstock with http://www.trainersfriend.com/ for posting first solution to problem #13 using 5 packed decimal instructions. See...
I've posted a second solution to the hash table problem which allows up to 2 duplicate hash key searches per entry resulting in a reduction in the hash table...
Given a decimal number with 2 decimal places representing the total cost of an item and another decimal number representing the quantify, calculate the unit...
All I've posted a solution to problem #11 which asks for the fastest hash routine to retrieve address of table entry given 8 character key for a table of known...
All This was posted on Hercules email group today by Jay Maynard, and I thought I'd pass it on for those interested in using it to extend older assemblers to...
All 1. A new problem #12 submitted by Tony Matharu has been posted regarding standard deviation. 2. A new solution to #4 submitted by Alfred Nykolya...
All 1. I've posted my solution for problem 10 which uses about 27 instructions and no loops to convert any 128 bit unsigned integer. The technique is...
All Since the last update on 12/27/07 we have 2 new solutions posted: 1. Congratulations to Mats Broberg, Roland Johansson, and Seb Sweden for the new #1...
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