On 9 Apr 2002, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
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> > --
> > Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
> > "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
>
> I love this quote. It takes a few seconds before you realize what that
> s
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:09:30PM -, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > While we are all in a post-mortem mood, could someone explains
> > to me, in simple words of no more than two syllables, why stuff like
> > map y|w|y|, sort @a;
> > changes the values of @a?
>
> OK: It just does,
> From: "Keith C. Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:36:04 -0400
>
> Adam Spiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > > just using it to do things the right
> > > number of times without operating on the array -- and here,
> > > not eve
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:06:34 -0400
> From: Yanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> While we are all in a post-mortem mood, could someone explains
> to me, in simple words of no more than two syllables, why stuff like
>
> map y|w|y|, sort @a;
>
> changes the values of @a?
OK: It just do
Adam Spiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > just using it to do things the right
> > number of times without operating on the array -- and here,
> > not even the right number of times, just a generous upper
> > bound.
>
> Not always that generous; in fa
Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> By the way, I had some solutions where it was better to add 98 or 99 than 8
> or 9 -- then you can just pick out solutions beginning with a 1.
Me too. Although I hadn't spotted the <= 15 rule, so I was
working with silly things like 1e9-2.
Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Adam Spiers wrote:
> >
> > Lars Henrik Mathiesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > In conclusion: There's more than one way to skin a cat, but still only
> > > a finite number. But I was a bit surprised to see that noone else was
> > >
While we are all in a post-mortem mood, could someone explains
to me, in simple words of no more than two syllables, why
stuff like
map y|w|y|, sort @a;
changes the values of @a? I was under the impression that sort returned
the sorted values and no references to the original
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:29:19 +0100 (BST)
> From: Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> By the way, I had some solutions where it was better to add 98 or 99 than 8
> or 9 -- then you can just pick out solutions beginning with a 1.
Neat. Getting rid of the singleton entries and hash keys is a
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:54:24 +0100
> From: Adam Spiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Lars Henrik Mathiesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I've made a quick rundown of the methods used in the solutions that
> > got under a score of 80 (as an arbitrary cutoff).
>
> [snip excellent analysis/summary]
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Adam Spiers wrote:
>
> Lars Henrik Mathiesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > In conclusion: There's more than one way to skin a cat, but still only
> > a finite number. But I was a bit surprised to see that noone else was
> > using the same method as I was.
>
> I wasn't. It's
On 8 Apr 2002, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> Adding 8 or 9 to make all numbers from 2 to 15 into two-digit integers:
>
By the way, I had some solutions where it was better to add 98 or 99 than 8
or 9 -- then you can just pick out solutions beginning with a 1.
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge,
Lars Henrik Mathiesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've made a quick rundown of the methods used in the solutions that
> got under a score of 80 (as an arbitrary cutoff).
[snip excellent analysis/summary]
Thanks for that. I wonder if there are any other methods with
potential. The only other o
I've made a quick rundown of the methods used in the solutions that
got under a score of 80 (as an arbitrary cutoff).
First off, everybody in this group used a hash to collect anagram
sets, generating the key with some moral equivalent of
join '', sort split //, $_;
the primary trick used h
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