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December 1st, 2006

We’ve been Welched

It seems that Hannes Naudé has continued the longstanding (if somewhat shady) tradition of hacking our contest scoring mechanism. We’ve stopped the queue for now. Once we fix the scoring process, we’ll post another message and fire up the queue again. Thanks for your patience.

If you’re wondering where the term “Welched” comes from, it is in honor of longtime contestant E. Brian Welch. Brian never won the contest, but he successfully hacked it more than once. His name even appears on the Hall of Fame page under the heading Most Creative Hack.

Not that we want to encourage any more such entries…

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By Ned Gulley

Ned is part of the MATLAB Central team.

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