From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson) Date: 2005-12-31T20:09:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Numeric Maze (#60) In article <5cd596d60512301537ydd6f53anf9cf2c9129fb5367@mail.gmail.com>, Jim Freeze wrote: >------=_Part_16057_14936009.1135985849520 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Disposition: inline > >On 12/30/05, Christer Nilsson wrote: >> >> J. Ryan Sobol wrote: >> > Would it be appropriate to post my potential answers (not code) to >> > this question? >> >> Some examples: >> >> solve(1, 1) # =3D> [1] > > >Is this a degenerate case? If to go from a to b in (a,b) through >transformation x,y or z, wouldn't there be two possible shortest solutions: > > [1,2,1] > [1,0.5,1] But you can't halve an odd number (from the original rules). Phil