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Re: A small challenge at beginner's level

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From	Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject	Re: A small challenge at beginner's level
Date	Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:42:46 -0000 (UTC)
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Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> public final class Main
> { public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
>   { java.lang.System.out.println( ... ); }}
>
>   where an expression can be inserted replacing
>   the »...«.

Is it also allowed to fix the atrocious formatting?

>   and in between you may use literals of the types double, int
>   and String, the operators »+«, »-«, »*« and »/« and
>   parentheses »(...)« and method calls of static methods of
>   the Java SE standard library.

String.format("you have%5.5s.",String.format("%"+(1+4*Math.round(Math.random()))+".1s"," lost")+"won")

certainly newbie level ;-)

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Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-08-03 13:42 +0000
  Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-08-03 14:02 +0000
  Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-08-03 22:47 +0000
  Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-08 08:01 -0700
    Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2017-08-08 22:59 +0200
      Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-09 05:16 -0700
    Re: A small challenge at beginner's level Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-08-08 21:00 -0400

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