seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
> Data integrity problems.  Basically, too many people would hack up their
> clients for one reason or another.  Binary distribution doesn't make this
> impossible, but it raises the barrier to entry.

Couldn't they just throw in a handful of known test cases in the
problem mix and see if the people calculated the right answer?  Any
answer from bogus / malicious hosts could be discarded.

-wolfgang
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