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O Christmas Tree

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

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Solutions by @I_haveno_name:
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#21 - hiding / @I_haveno_name

01/13/2014 at 11:38PM

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#>24 - hiding / @I_haveno_name

01/13/2014 at 11:35PM