From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T12:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Numeric Maze (#60)

On 12/31/05, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 31, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Peter Burns wrote:
>
> > I think I've improved upon this test code a bit.  I found this one to
> > be a bit brittle, as it will fail solutions with unanticipated paths
> > of the same or smaller length.  I lost some of the metadata in the
> > switch, as Steve has the different solutions ordered by type (i.e.
> > primes, powers of two, etc).
>
> Looks great Peter.  I posted a note about and link to your improved
> version on my [original post][1].
>
> > I'm just pounding away at this test case code because my mathematician
> > buddy is busy at the moment.  This is quite the nontrivial problem...
>
> Exactly why I created my own test cases.  :)
>
> --Steve
>
> [1]: http://swaits.com/articles/2005/12/31/ruby-quiz-60-test-cases
>

I'd just like to chime in to say that this quiz is killing me.  The
difference between 'code to solve the problem' and 'code that finishes
running, you know, sometime today' is big.