Of course 44 is off by 2 (the answer is actually 42) but apart the program doing nothing actually useful, the blog article is nice. We did something like that

Of course 44 is off by 2 (the answer is actually 42) but apart the program doing nothing actually useful, the blog article is nice. We did something like that with actually some use some time ago (shameless plug): http://reboot.pro/topic/18792-if-anyone-is-up-for-a-challenge/ http://reboot.pro/topic/18792-if-anyone-is-up-for-a-challeng... All the way down to 172, 164 and 148 bytes and even a 97 one which is the bare minimum on XP, same link as already posted on the work by Alexander Sotirov, but more readable: http://www.phreedom.org/research/tinype/ http://www.phreedom.org/research/tinype/ The limit on 64 bit (windows 7 64 bit) has been reported at the time to be 252 bytes, but simply padding with zeroes a smaller program worked to find this limit: http://reboot.pro/topic/18792-if-anyone-is-up-for-a-challenge/?p=176423 http://reboot.pro/topic/18792-if-anyone-is-up-for-a-challeng...