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/*
   Copyright (c) 2011 Ivo Wetzel.

   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
   of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
   in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
   to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
   copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
   furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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// solve(num) with isPrime(num) 
// approx. time to solve for 600 trillion: several hours
function solve(num) {
	var i = num - 1, result = num;
	for(;i>1;i--) 
	{
		if(num%i === 0) {
			if(isPrime(i))
			{
				result = i;

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function factor(num, index) {
	if(!index) index = 2;
	var lim = Math.ceil(num/2)+1, result=num;
	if(index < lim) {
		if(num%index === 0) {
			return factor2(num/index);
		}
		result = factor(num, ++index;
	}
	return result;

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for(;i<nums.length;i++) {
   var northeast = nums[i]*nums[i-(n-1)]*nums[i-2*(n-1)]*nums[i-3*(n-1)],
   if(northeast > p) p = northeast;
}
for(;i<nums.length;i++) {
   var north = nums[i]*nums[i-n]*nums[i-2*n]*nums[i-3*n];
   if(north > p) p = north;
}
for(;i<nums.length;i++) {
   var east = nums[i]*nums[i+1]*nums[i+2]*nums[i+3];

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	var nums = [], lengths = [];
	function findNumLength(n) {
		//preliminary check to see if 
		//we've done this number before
		var indexOf = nums.indexOf(n);
		if(indexOf !== -1) {
			return lengths[indexOf];
		}
		function even (n2) { return n2%2===0; }
		if(n===1) {

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var DATE_PRETTIFIER = {
  date: null,
  parse: function(input) {
    if(input.length >= 8) {
        var day, month, year;
        day = parseInt(input.substring(6,8), 10);
        month = parseInt(input.substring(4,6), 10);
        year = parseInt(input.substring(0,4), 10);
        this.date = new Date(year, month, day);
    }

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var Mail = Mail || {};
Mail.Message = Mail.Message || {
	from: "", //Contact
	subject: "",
	date: "",
	body: ""
};
Mail.Contact = Mail.Contact || {
	name: "", 
	email: ""

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var  messages = document.getElementById("messages"),
	i=0;
	for(;i<Mail.messages.length;i++) {
		function addSender(m, row)  {
			var cell = row.insertCell(-1);
			Utils.traversal.setText(m.from.name, cell);
		}
		function addSubject(m, row) {
			var cell = row.insertCell(-1);
			Utils.traversal.setText(m.subject, cell);

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##The Programmer's Tales: Prologue ###The Knight

Thomas Shields

There was a geek, a most distinguished man

Who from the day on which he first began

to code JS had done so elegantly -

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(function () {
    "use strict";

    WinJS.Binding.optimizeBindingReferences = true;

    var app = WinJS.Application;
    var activation = Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation;
    WinJS.strictProcessing();

    app.onactivated = function (args) {