From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T05:20:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Coding challenge (on Ruby Garden)

just figured it out.

i thought i was producing every permutation, but it turns out i'm only
getting a portion (i think 1/nitems of them).

i'll fix it.

~transami

p.s. perhaps david's has a similar problem, though i haven't looked at
it too deeply.


On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 14:09, Bill Kelly wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> From: "Tom Sawyer" <transami@transami.net>
> >
> > bill can you tell where mine is failing? it passes david's tests plus
> > the one avi's missed --which your test dosn't seem to catch. would like
> > to fix mine though if there's a bug.
> 
> I tried reducing the dataset size as far as possible and having it
> still fail.  It seems to fail on this:
> 
>   big_items = [1, 3, 2, 4]
>   big_rows = [[ 2 ], [ 1 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ]]
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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~transami