Wooden Table

Four legs and a flat top, held together by number theory (∩˃o˂∩)

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Grid	Code Size	Leaderboard	Cycles	Leaderboard	Date
7x7x7	21	#339	6.464	#976	2026-02-23

Solution

return(y==1 or y<1 and x*x+z*z==8)and 15

How it works

The tabletop is a full layer at y==1. The four legs are columns at the corners (|x|=2, |z|=2) running from y=0 down to y=-3. Instead of checking abs(x)==2 and abs(z)==2 separately (expensive!), we use x*x+z*z==8 which is only satisfied by |x|=|z|=2 within this grid. One equation replaces two comparisons.