> Wow, I'm impressed.  Can't wait to see that code!

Thanks. :)

Because startup time startet to take over the benchmark:
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$ time ruby quiz139.rb 68.97.89.187 84.191.4.10 80.79.64.128 210.185.128.123
202.10.4.222 192.189.119.1
US
DE
RU
JP
AU
EU

real    0m0.078s
user    0m0.046s
sys     0m0.031s
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and by the way: thanks for telling me such a database exists!

cheers

Simon