FYI my current champion has length 224.


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From: Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:28 pm
Subject: [Jprogramming] Sling Blade Runner

> Rather than interminable discussions about inane
> benchmarks, how about a problem from ITA Software,
> the same people that posed the problem for
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Queens_and_Knights
> 
> http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles07.html
> 
> Sling Blade Runner
> 
> "How long a chain of overlapping movie titles, 
> like Sling Blade Runner, can you find?"
> 
> Use the following listing of movie titles: 
> http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzles/MOVIES.LST
> Multi-word overlaps, as in "License to Kill a 
> Mockingbird," are allowed. The same title may not 
> be used more than once in a solution. Optimize for the greatest 
> number of titles in the chain.
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