1000000 Hail Mary's in kvikkalkul. I got many requests for a real program in kvikkalkul. Here is one, without comments of course. 666/ 5 /0 -) 666 :1 -) 550 :0 -) 1010 -) :1 1010: :1 -) 888 :0 -) 1020 -) :1 1020: /0 -) 666 :1 -) 1030 :2 -) 1040 :0 -) 1050 :3 -) 560 .9 (- ,0 1030: .8 (- ,0 1040: -) :3 1050: .8 (- .8 -/- ,0005 .8 ( ,49975 -) :2 .9 (- .9 -/- ,0005 .9 ( ,49975 -) :1 :1 -) 666 -) :1 Notes: 1 This progrram uses the library routines 550 and 560 for reading and writing a line on the teletype in packed 3 per number format. The line is stored in data area 666, which holds 5 numbers, 15 chars. 2 The first time you run the program it reads a line from the teletype and you have to type the line "hail mary". Then it dumps the memory contents to paper tape (888). The compiler constructs a production binary from that memory dump and the original program binary. This binary will start at label 1020: 3 This is really sloppy code. It uses fractional numbers such as 0.0005 that are not exactly represented in binary. Serious programs used exact powers of 2 for counters, like 1/1024 ( ,0009765625) 4 No way we would ever attempt to run such silliness! It would eat several boxes of paper and the computer time would cost a large multiple of the paper. 5 Kvikkalkul isn't that bad for expressing algorithms, once you get used to it.