On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice, Marshall. That's just the sort of solution I was feeling towards.
It seems to me that is also very similar to what Roger Hui was describing. > I agree in principle with Raul -- a first pass is necessary to read > the numbered cards into the computer in the first place, so notionally > you must add 1 to any total of passes. But I wasn't thinking of this > as forming part of the actual algorithm. If the human can supply sufficient summary information (which might be roughly equivalent, from an algorithmic point of view, to constraining the problem) this initial step would not be needed. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
