En op 09 juni 2002 sprak Stephen Turner the dude who wrote analog: > But I always thought the aim was to solve the problem, > rather than merely to pass the tests.
Of course it is. But remember seano has only played the last two tournaments and was doubtless unaware of this. There are numerous precedents for this. The right thing to do when you find an unsound program that passes the test program is to alert the judges and (better) provide them with a test case so the test program can be fixed to fail the said unsound program. Keith did this several times during the Get Even game: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01257.html "If you suspect your solution is unsound, please please do what Keith did, and try to find some test data that breaks it. At the end of the game, the other players have the right to find test data that breaks any solution and that solution will then be disqualified, so it is much better to find that out now." I admit I was shocked that Ton's winning entry did not pass the test program. That would never happen in a game run by me. If someone submitted a valid solution that failed the test program, I would immediately and urgently fix the test program so that it passed. That is because I always thought that passing the test program was a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of each and every entry. /-\ndrew
