Re: [Jscheme-user] ILC 2003 Programming Contest

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@kn...>]

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 01:38 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
> Here's a Lisp programming contest:
> http://www.ravenbrook.com/doc/2003/05/28/contest/

On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 13:20 US/Eastern, Timothy John Hickey 
wrote:
> For each of the 64 spaces on the board we would keep track of which 
> particular puzzle pieces could go there.
> This task is simplified if we consider each orientation of the 13 
> pieces as a different piece. (So there are now
> 13*4 = 52 different pieces, and a constraint that exactly one piece 
> from each group of 4 must be used).

That's a really neat idea.  It almost makes the problem seem easy.  You 
must be a genius.  (My boss 16 years ago said that genius was not about 
wattage, it was the ability to look at something from a slightly 
different perspective and see something others could not.)

Geoffrey
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