Hethcoat-III, Charles L wrote: >> Duh. South Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota > > Shoot. The puzzle I saw said "rearrange the letters". Arguably, > rearranging the words is the same as rearranging the letters: crude, > quick, effective -- but does it satisfy?
Well, it *is* a rearrangement of the letters :) > Anyhow, we're computer jocks. We are not satisfied with *a* solution. > We want *all* solutions! And if there is only one solution, we demand > PROOF! And because we never want to write the same program again, we want one that can work with an arbitrary list of items and not just state names! > Still, I feel sort of stupid... Don't. I didn't see this until I had a program working. The original puzzle is one of those that's probably more easily handled by thinking about the problem instead of trying to find a program to solve it for us. (Anyone else remember "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine"?) Still, I asked for programs that could solve this, and am more interested in programs that can solve the general case where the list of items isn't know in advance. -- Steve Wampler [EMAIL PROTECTED] The gods that smiled upon your birth are laughing now. -- fortune cookie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list Unicon-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
