Cool and simple ideas needed!

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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:

> > Generate some digits of pi...
> That's a good idea. That way I can use the full "power" of the FORTRAN
> IV math library..... :-)
>
> or generate permutations in minimal
> > change (gray code) order is fun.
> I could write a converter program. The same task in VHDL on a FPGA was
> my task at the university last week!
>
>
> > Good question though... "hello world" gives you no feel for the
> > machine whatsoever. Need to make the computer compute...
> Yes. Hello world says hello world and asks for name, does this and that.
> I'm looking for some impressive and easy to implement toys.

Impressive != (normally) easy to implement.

Find an IMP and re-create the ARPAnet protocols.

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