[Stellaferox]

Errr....guys (and girls),

I have a few objections to this approach. Programming a calculator scientific or plain can be really difficult with regard to the accuracy, format and depth of the figures. Second, I think the competition should be accessible to a larger group.

I therefore propose that the competition is about developing a certain sub which does things:
- the quickest
- the most elegant
- etc
which is up to a jury of a few. Everybody can engage in the challenge. Also a very simple program could be the goal. I can tell you that even for experienced programmers it is not that easy to write plain, fast and dependable code.

The first challenge could be to develop:
- a bubblesort routine
- the quickest factorial routine
- a filehandlig routine
- an imagehandling routine
- whatever........

I fear that if we put up the calculator as challenge that it might look a bit easier than the iconeditor but to reach good accuracy, at least for the scientific part, as well as speed, a lot of mathematical routines are used in calculators other then the mathemathical functions to "approach" the result.

I'd like to hear your ideas, and if possible, for subs as well.... those could be used in a library.......

Marc