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Re: [FWP] Brief Coding Methods



On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:27:01PM -0400, Prakash Kailasa wrote:
> John's solution found only 19 solutions.
> Here's mine (which isn't short either). It found 187 solutions.

OOPS!  You're right.  I had coded chooseN to return combinations,
with the intention of permuting the results -- which I promptly
forgot to do.  I rewrote it to return permutations, and now I
get the same answer as Prakash.

-- 
John Porter


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