[Boston.pm] software puzzle - extracting longest alphabetical list of phrases from a list of words

2008-10-26 Thread Tolkin, Steve
The following is just a problem in computer science. It is not directly related to Perl, or to my work. I am looking for insights in how to think about this. The input: a list of words. The output: a partitioning of the input list into a longest list of phrases, such that the phrases are in

Re: [Boston.pm] software puzzle - extracting longest alphabetical list of phrases from a list of words

2008-10-26 Thread Ben Tilly
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Tolkin, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following is just a problem in computer science. It is not directly related to Perl, or to my work. I am looking for insights in how to think about this. The input: a list of words. The output: a partitioning of

Re: [Boston.pm] software puzzle - extracting longest alphabetical list of phrases from a list of words

2008-10-26 Thread Ben Tilly
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Tolkin, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following is just a problem in computer science. It is not directly related to Perl, or to my work. I am looking for insights in how to think about