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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 ;-)