From: Andrey Falko Date: 2006-07-08T13:34:51+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Panagrams (#86) Have you tried with different sentances? On 7/7/06, Christoffer Lern旦 wrote:> This is really crazy.>> Either people have optimized things a whole lot better than me (not> unlikely, I haven't made any real attempts at optimizing things), or> I am using a bad algorithm.>> I didn't time the solution:>> a ruby quiz solution found this sentence enumerating four a's, two> b's, two c's, three d's, thirtyfour e's, nine f's, three g's, eight> h's, sixteen i's, one j, one k, three l's, two m's, twentyfive n's,> fifteen o's, one p, two q's, eleven r's, twentynine s's, twentyfive> t's, nine u's, four v's, nine w's, three x's, six y's and two z's>> ...but it took my program 8018361 iterations.>> Is it the optimization or the algorithm I got wrong?>> /Christoffer>>> On Jul 7, 2006, at 22:47 , Simon Kr旦ger wrote:>> > James Edward Gray II wrote:> >> On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:34 PM, brian.mattern@gmail.com wrote:> >>> >>> Is it a spoiler if we post a resulting pangram (no code)?> >>> >> Not at all. Please do.> >>> >> James Edward Gray II> >> >> > This is the pangram from simon, there are four a's, one b, one c,> > one d,> > thirty-two e's, seven f's, four g's, nine h's, eleven i's, one j,> > one k,> > two l's, four m's, twenty n's, eighteen o's, two p's, one q, thirteen> > r's, twenty-seven s's, eighteen t's, six u's, four v's, six w's, three> > x's, four y's, one z.> > Time: 8.39s> >> > cheers> >> > Simon> >>>>