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in thread Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

Update: Amongst other possible errors, this rejects words that have more than 8 letters; whereas it should only reject words with more than 8 unique letters!

The corrected version is much slower. (And still running!)

BTW: Where is your (attempt at) a solution? Or are you one of those that can only get their jollies critiquing others honest attempts?

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Re^6: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words
by McA (Priest) on Oct 04, 2013 at 23:58 UTC

    Hi BrowserUK,

    my approach is still running. I'll present my "solution" as soon as I have the feeling I did it right. My solution is a real brute force solution. I will last some time as I have to loop over 13,884,156 permutations iterating over 35016 unique words.

    I hope I'll be right. ;-)

    McA

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      I'll present my "solution" as sson as I have the feeling I did it right.

      The beauty of challenges is that no one is harmed -- and we can all learn from -- imperfect attempts.

      The trouble with waiting for brute force is that if you've not considered something, that someone else can point out, you've a long time to wait before you discover that.

      I look forward to critiquing your approach :)

      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Well spoken! (++)

        I hope there will be no reason for doing so, besides of the runtime... ;-)

        I'm really curious.

        I'm just searching for a module helping me to parallize the approch. I need one which is able to return results to the parent.

        UPDATE: The very first output of my script is:

        'tux' can be produced by 'aaaaatux'

        [download]

        I'm sure THIS IS A SIGN! ;-)

        Regards
        McA

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