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Tempting, but the this is the "swapping bits" that I was referring to. The solution skips these three combinations:

   01101
   01110
   10110
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If you look at them closely, you'll see why you can't generate them. That's what got me stuck on this track. If that can be solved, this is a good way to go.

Oh, and since you mentioned this was untested, I won't comment about for my $bit ($splits-1..0) { :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to Re: Re(3): Puzzle: need a more general algorithm by Ovid
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