> -----Original Message----- > From: Usenet News [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ton Hospel > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: The monthly golf *IS* happening > > > In article <01a801c28_0c$5365d_80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Benoît Chauvet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > .... > >> The winner will be the one with the shortest solution on > >> "the other algorithm", where we will use this rule to distinguish the > >> two: if you do only a single sort when processing a line, we call it > >> algorithm one, if you do multiple sorts, we call it algorithm two. > > > > Isn't it a spoiler that the judges assume there are only 2 > algorithms for > > this hole ? Even if they were given in the motivation, one might think > > there's another way (where is the TMTOWTDI spirit ?) > > > > Anyway, this hole is special, as it's the first time that the possible > > methods are given (which as a player I thank the heaven for) > > > > That paragraph defines everything that does 1 sort as algorithm one, > and everything that does multiple sorts as algorithm two, exactly so > that "different" stuff will still be called either one or two. So no, > we don't actually assume there are only two methods, but we assign all > methods to one of two groups (ok, there could be solutions without ANY > use of "sort", but it probably does not surprise anyone that there are > currently no solutions that don't use sort)
I have a solution that dont use sort, but i havent really golfed it too hard because it will be too long. Should get below 100 with it tho. Terje K
