Re: [FWP] A heftier challenge for y'all

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 26 Jul 99, at 16:42, Andrew Clayton wrote:

> At 20:25 25/07/99 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> >On 20 Jul 99, at 10:01, John Porter wrote:
> 
> >> You've probably seen the word puzzles that involve transforming one
> >> word into another by changing one letter at a time, e.g. 'solar' into
> >> 'oasis' in 12 steps (single-letter changes).
> 
> Tom Christiansen wrote one a while back, called Lexmorph.
> 
> http://mox.perl.com/lexmorph

Alas, but it is slow --- probably OK for finding a single word ladder, 
but I doubt it is a good approach for doing the brute-force search to 
seek out the longest mimimum-ladder-pair.

  /Bernie\
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