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From:
Jasper
Date:
January 4, 2007 16:20
Subject:
Re: New Golf
Message ID:
81cd84130701041620qdcca17ej2350a699e2f39f50@mail.gmail.com
On 1/4/07, Andrew Savige <ajsavige@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the
> test case:
>
>  MD plus I
>
> which should produce the answer MDI.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the shortest solutions
> of szery, Sec and Jasper all fail this test case.
>
> Falling back one stroke from 4e3 to 3999 remedies.
>
> Please let me know if I've made a blunderific oversight.

I've no doubt you're correct. 4e3 (vs 3999) seemed to bork for me
sometimes, but passed the test suite for my final solution.

I don't really mind, since it doesn't change my final position (nor Sec's)

Jasper

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