Re: [racket] This is not a solution! Re: A puzzle

2011-01-21 Thread Mark Engelberg
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I see a lot of code, but what's the puzzle.  Presumably there's some > kind of question that has to be answered about it? > > -- hendrik The program is a multithreaded program that crashes unless the executions of the threads are interleaved

Re: [racket] This is not a solution! Re: A puzzle

2011-01-20 Thread engineer
Part of what makes MIT Mystery Hunt puzzles so hard is that even the questions aren't often obvious. > I see a lot of code, but what's the puzzle. Presumably > there's some kind of question that has to be answered about it? > > -- hendrik > _ >

[racket] This is not a solution! Re: A puzzle

2011-01-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:43:40PM -0500, Doug Orleans wrote: > The following program was a puzzle in the 2011 MIT Mystery Hunt held last > weekend. (I'm not linking directly to the site because they posted a > solution and I don't want you to be tempted to look at the answer > prematurely...) I