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by goodmythical 29 days ago
My brief search says nasa says the average back is 47.6cm * 39.2cm. ~18.74in*15.43in is 289.152in^2.

Code in question is 9319 characters counting whitespaces according to copy/paste github raw to zed and selecting all characters.

That's ~32.2 characters per square in.

Aside from the likelihood that it smears/fades to illegibility in a few years, bless the artist that has the patience.

Hell, good luck finding anyone, really. Any artist can throw some words on you, but to do this scale... Getting every line to be "straight" across the back over 200 lines, with each character taking perhaps 15 seconds (because this would require precision single needle work with a good steady hand), that's just shy of 40 hours, which I suppose is in line with typical times for large detailed pieces.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is go look at some declaration of independence tattoos because that's ~17% as many characters (1628 without the signatures) meaning MicroGPT as a tattoo requires nearly six times as many characters per inch of skin.

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Maybe you could port it to APL?

That i'm sure the code can be made shorter by guys in the code golf community.