[igouy]

> He wrote solutions for Shootout (predecessor to that Debian page) problems a few years ago; a lack of k in benchmarks is not due to a lack of k being volunteered

That's 6 of the programs, there were at-least 4 others ;-)

I lacked and still lack the knowledge to figure out if those snippets are doing what they should.

For example, do those scripts set arg n from the command line and read from stdin? Do those scripts write correctly formatted output to stdout?

What a pity that page does not show measurements for those scripts, and a comparison with some of the C programs written for the benchmarks game.