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    Default Obfuscated code contest

    A small twist to the traditional obfuscated coding contest. Without running/refactoring/formatting this code, figure out what it does (it's something fairly simple).

    public class Obfuscated
    {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {long ___;long _____[]=new long[0x10];
    {_____[0]=System.nanoTime();
    ___=System.nanoTime()%9223372036854773232L;
    for(int _______=0;_______<0x10;++_______)
    {_____[_______]=(9223372036854773232L*_____[_______]+___&Long.MAX_VALUE)%9223372036854775807L;
    ___=9223372036854773232L*_____[_______]+___;}}
    int ______=0;long _______=0;long ________=0;
    for(;________<0xFFFFFFL;++________)
    {long _________=(9223372036854773232L*_____[______]+___&Long.MAX_VALUE)%9223372036854775807L;
    ___=9223372036854773232L*_____[______]+___;
    _____[______]=_________;
    double __________=(double)_____[______]/Long.MAX_VALUE;
    ++______;
    if(______>=0x10)
    {______=0;}
    _________=(9223372036854773232L*_____[______]+___&Long.MAX_VALUE)%9223372036854775807L;
    ___=9223372036854773232L*_____[______]+___;
    _____[______]=_________;
    double ___________=(double)_____[______]/Long.MAX_VALUE;
    ++______;
    if(______>=0x10)
    {______=0;}
    if(Math.sqrt(__________*__________+___________*___________)<=1)
    {++_______;}}
    System.out.println(4.*_______/________);}}

    The first correct answer wins bragging rights and a free copy of the Eclipse IDE
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    Default Re: Obfuscated code contest

    Ugh my head
    But to me, it seems as if you are dividing 0/0, but you are also multiplying a float... Hmm, does it print positive infinity?

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    Default Re: Obfuscated code contest

    nope The algorithms I chose are those which people normally don't work with directly and can't have the results worked out by hand. However, I'm confident that someone will eventually be able to figure it out.

    edit:

    hmm, I guess I didn't realize this before but there's something wrong with part of the code. However, despite this, the code is still able to converge on the correct answer (hint hint).
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    Default Re: Obfuscated code contest

    I really thought someone would have figured out what this code does.

    Well, here is the spoiler: It calculates the value of pi. I implemented a small CMWC random number generator, but I kind of botched the generator code (there were quite a few mistakes). However, the generator was of sufficient quality that it could still calculate pi (it's actually kind of funny how bad the generator can be and still get decent results for pi).

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