224 titles or 224 characters? ("Optimize for the greatest number of titles
in the chain.")Regards, Pablo Landherr On 5/22/07, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FYI my current champion has length 224. ----- Original Message ----- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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