Re: [QUIZ] Perl 'Hard' Quiz of the Week #2005-03-22

On Thursday 24 March 2005 00:54, Colin Rafferty wrote:
> Greg Bacon wrote:
> > Shlomi Fish writes:
> >> sequence of binary digits (starting from the least significant bit)
> >
> > Should "least significant" be "most significant,"
>
> I missed that as well.  Given that his example automata is written for
> "most significant", 

Actually, the example state machine works for least significant first order.

> I assume that the word "least" was a typo, rather 
> than his example.

That is not the case.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

>
> > It's interesting that the resulting automata are isomorphic to one
> > another.  That they do makes sense after you've seen it, but it wasn't
> > an initial expectation.
>
> I don't see that at all.  My solution for MSB-first was pretty
> straightforward.  In fact, it was by far the shortest solution for a
> 'Hard' quiz ever.
>
> However, I would need an entirely different approach for a LSB-first
> problem.  I guess that would qualify as a hard quiz.
>
> We can discuss this more in another 1 day 5 hours 37 seconds (as the
> third easy quiz tells me).

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