On 04 Dec 2001 09:03:53AM +0800, Jessie Evangelista ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
said:

> Yeah right! It's not the same. Do you even know how postfix works? Do 
> you understand why sacha seems to think that postfix is the way to go 
> to solve the problem?

Although I'd like to learn LISP, so I'm starting to lean towards
prefix... <laugh>

> How do you know its useless? Shheesh! I thought the fibonacci series was 
> useless and yet I found out that its being used by some of my 

Speaking of Fibonacci - I remember learning about this extremely cool
way of getting the Fibonacci numbers using the golden mean. I can't,
however, remember the actual equation! <grumble>

> Really now, how about coming up with a distributed application that 
> would solve this, that seems like a good enough challenge for any hacker ...

It's too small to need parallel processing. Now if we were dealing with
100 9s... <g>

> if speed is truly an issue but for extremely LARGE and COMPLICATED  systems,
> I believe it's still advisable to do it the clean way

Agree! =)

> Well, how do you solve it without using postfix eh???

With a _lot_ of subsets. ;)

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