Re: [QUIZ] Perl 'Easy' Quiz #2005-2

Roger Burton West <roger-UvLOT2mcgw/[email protected]> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:45:47 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.qotw.discuss
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:23:30PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:

>And now... a question of what makes up a "different" solution. Let's say 
>I have M different ways of detecting if I need to keep going, and N 
>different ways of doing the next step. Theoritically, I could easily 
>generate M*N "different" solutions by combining all the different 
>options. However, this is not only tediius for me to generate, but also 
>seems a bit at odds with the spirit of TMTOWTDI.
>
>What are other's thoughts on this?

Concur. max(M,N) seems more reasonable if they're all interesting.

I'm not going for numbers, but I do have two solutions in PostScript. :-)

Roger