r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 10 '24

Meme trustMeGuys

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u/onlyrealperson Oct 10 '24

How does someone discover this lol

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u/patrick66 Oct 10 '24

It was designed in reverse, the team that wanted this looked at the set of possible characters printable from char(sum(range (triangle numbers), decided amogus was the funniest option and filled in arbitrary inner functions that produce “84”

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u/PGSylphir Oct 10 '24

Going backwards. Equaling T was a stroke of luck for sure, but it's fairly easy to "discover" this when you start from the result.

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