Why is it assumed that the symbols will be in alphabetical/numerical order in alien language as they are in human language? e.g. if "a" =1 why can't "b" be < 1? With this logic we get far lesser time... # Input: 11001001
0 = 1 1 = 0 1: 0 * 2^0 = 0 0: 1 * 2^1 = 2 0: 1 * 2^2 = 4 1: 0 * 2^3 = 0 0: 1 * 2^4 = 16 0: 1 * 2^5 = 32 1: 0 * 2^6 = 0 1: 0 * 2^7 = 0 Case #1: 54 # Input: cats a = 1 c = 0 s = 3 t = 2 s: 3 * 4^0 = 3 t: 2 * 4^1 = 8 a: 1 * 4^2 = 16 c: 0 * 4^3 = 0 Case #2: 27 # Input: zig g = 2 i = 1 z = 0 g: 2 * 3^0 = 2 i: 1 * 3^1 = 3 z: 0 * 3^2 = 0 Case #3: 5 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/4b407f13-7dbf-4639-9d5f-f1449eefecab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
