LanX,
So you are still obsessed with this problem? :)

I believe that if a formula exists, it would be <total> - <calculate for a> - <calculate for b> ... <calculate for z>.

I am not really obsessed with the problem. I just like to learn and this was a fun distraction. Most of the heuristic solutions in this thread are ones I had considered and abandoned because I could think of a trivial case where it failed. It is also why I resorted to an exhaustive search. Not because a heuristic solution wouldn't be good enough or that it may be guaranteed to give the correct solution on any real dictionary but because I wanted to see if I could do it in a reasonable (less than 24 hours) amount of time. I was completely shocked that it only took 12 minutes on my home machine.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^9: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words by Limbic~Region
in thread Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words by Limbic~Region

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