From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T03:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Micrrowave Numbers (#118)

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:11:45 +0900, Brown, Warren wrote:

> James,
> 
>> # 120 seconds is 2 minutes, and 200 is slightly less movement than 120
>> microwave(120) => 200
>>
>> # 123 seconds is 2:03, but 203 is a lot more distance microwave(123) =>
>> 123
> 
>     How is the microwave supposed to know that "120" is 120 seconds but
> "200" is two minutes?  My experience is that microwaves will interpret
> two-digit numbers as seconds and three-digit numbers as minutes and
> seconds.  Therefore, "99" is 99 seconds, but "120" is one minute, twenty
> seconds.  Am I missing something?
> 
>     - Warren Brown

Here's a thought: for times from 0-99 seconds, determine the fastest way 
of typing those times.

For times above 99 seconds, do as follows:
min,sec=thetime.divmod(60)
min-=1
sec+=60
and compute the distances that way.


-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/