Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > Hethcoat-III, Charles L wrote: > > Looking back a bit, no one seems to have followed up on an interesting > > suggestion someone made about using prime numbers to solve the puzzle. > > (Unfortunately, I have lost the original posting so I cannot credit the > > poster.) I think the suggestion was to assign prime numbers to the > > letters of the alphabet and then do a product of the letter-values of > > the state names. I haven't tested this idea. Has anyone else? Does it > > generate unusably huge numbers? I'll try to do some experiments in this > > area ... maybe ... time permitting. > > That's essentially a Goedel numbering scheme. It's clever. It could generate > large numbers if the input has long phrases (especially with lots of letters > near the end of the alphabet!) I don't know if there's a performance > advantage > over using the letters themselves to form the signature or not.
The strings are equivalent to base-256 so you could easily convert them to integers—especially if Icon had EQUIVALENCE statements! :) -- Barry.SCHWARTZ ĉe chemoelectric punkto org http://chemoelectric.org Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com 'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html)
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