From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T07:02:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8298] Re: speedup of anagram finder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
> [mailto:gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp]
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 9:30 PM
> To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp
> Subject: [ruby-talk:8292] Re: speedup of anagram finder
> 
> >primes associated with each letter in the word.
> 
> Neat!  It is a kind of Goedel number. I've never seen any practical
> application of this numbering scheme. 
> 

Glad you liked it. Listen, if it's a specific case of a Goedel number, could
we call it
the "Shultz integral invariant" of an ascii string? This may be my only
chance to be
an eponym. :0))

> 
> You can justify output lines by "bm(10) do |x| ...". 

thanks for the tip -- benchmark is a great tool.

Barry