On Mardi 5 Mars 2002 15:37, Chris Dolan wrote : > Isn't listing the number of [^\w\s] a little too big a hint? For > example, it might have given away the technique for TPR(0,0) since the > winners had so many \w characters. Maybe the leaderboard should just > silently sort the ties.
In that case, revealing the whole scoring is too big a hint. Normally, golf contest reveal the score for the _total_ of the holes, but as there's only one course, total score is also the score of the hole. And that's not because the score and tie-breaker score is the same that solutions are the same. Simply, there is no way to untie them according to the rules. Given two solutions with the same score and tie breaker score, imagine how frustrating it would be if one of the golfer gains one char and not the other... But if the solutions are different, there may be absolutely no way for the second golfer to shave one more char... Jerome -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
