September 30, 2007
Run-Length Encoding
Actually, no. No encoding. We stop a step before that :)
If you look at the right-side bar of this page, below the “Hall Of Fame” section, you can see a new “Runlengths” section.
This new section features 5 hard-working boiledbeans users on the front page, who have the longest chain of right answers.
Let us see Shashank’s stats to understand the feature better
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Shashank
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3 => 4 => 5 => 6 => 7 => 8 => 9 => 10 => 11 => 12
14
22 => 23 => 24 => 25
27
30
32
34
37 => 38 => 39 => 40
43
46
Shashank’s max runlength = 10
The numbers we see here are chains of question numbers where “Shashank” has got the answer right. The longest chain of right answers has a length of 10. Notice that he has other chains which have lengths equal to 4 and 1.
So, now you know how simple it is to reach the front page of boiledbeans.. just get more right answers in a row than the user with 5th longest right answer chain! Simple :)
Also, please stick to the user names which you prefer to use.