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From:
Stephen Turner
Date:
July 9, 2002 13:19
Subject:
Re: My solution annotated
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.3.96.1020709211701.5750A-100000@gentoo
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Chris Dolan wrote:

> My favorite solution was by Jukka Suomela at 97.47. [...]
> 
> The principle behind this solution is that Perl already has a
> topological sorter for graphs built in: the garbage collector.
> [...]
>

That is truly brilliant. And all in under 100 characters. Do the judges
still award discretionary prizes?

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
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