oisincar/Who_am_I.c

#Who am I.c I'm not sure if this really belongs here, but it sucks to spend a long time on something only to leave it in some random folder so.. Here it is anyway. My first (intentional, at least) attempt at obfuscated c code.

It prints "Oisin" followed by a newline, but the letters making up my second name; Carroll, are the only ones in the source code.

#include "stdio.h"
main(_){return!((-~_<<_/_<<_/_)/
  ' ')?main(-~_),printf(
    "%C",((_*((_*
      'a'*(_-
        'r'/6)+(1110*
          'r'<<_/_)/19)*_-7*(
            'o'>>_/_)*18*'!'/5)+(
              'L'<<10))*(_<<_/_)-(415*
                'l'<<4)/9+_*(_*_*_-3221*
                  '.'/23+_))/('<'<<_/_)):0;}

You're welcome to figure out how it works yourself, or you can read the comment within my attempt at spoiler tag below.

**Click here for an explanation.**

* The characters come from a 6th order polynomial equation, the function prints one letter per recursion, increasing the value subbed in each time. I used an on-line maths engine (not wolfram-alpha, I can't remember what it was atm.) to generate it from some a series of simple ```a + bx + cx^2 + dx^3 +....= assci value``` equasions.

((-~_<<_/_<<_/_)/' ')? on the first line means: if((x+1)*4/32) which is equilanent to if(x<7). This stops the looping.
_ is actually a variable name, and is the only variable in the program. It's declared as an int with the value of 1 in the main function header. It throws a warning, but it works.
-~x is the same as x+1. (Because of two's complement.. or something? I just stole it from somewhere.)

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