RE: The monthly golf *IS* happening

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Usenet News [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ton Hospel
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: The monthly golf *IS* happening
>
>
> In article <[email protected]>,
> 	Benoît Chauvet <[email protected]> writes:
> > ....
> >> The winner will be the one with the shortest solution on
> >> "the other algorithm", where we will use this rule to distinguish the
> >> two: if you do only a single sort when processing a line, we call it
> >> algorithm one, if you do multiple sorts, we call it algorithm two.
> >
> > Isn't it a spoiler that the judges assume there are only 2
> algorithms for
> > this hole ? Even if they were given in the motivation, one might think
> > there's another way (where is the TMTOWTDI spirit ?)
> >
> > Anyway, this hole is special, as it's the first time that the possible
> > methods are given (which as a player I thank the heaven for)
> >
>
> That paragraph defines everything that does 1 sort as algorithm one,
> and everything that does multiple sorts as algorithm two, exactly so
> that "different" stuff will still be called either one or two. So no,
> we don't actually assume there are only two methods, but we assign all
> methods to one of two groups (ok, there could be solutions without ANY
> use of "sort", but it probably does not surprise anyone that there are
> currently no solutions that don't use sort)

I have a solution that dont use sort, but i havent really golfed it too hard
because it will be too long.
Should get below 100 with it tho.

Terje K