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Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge by temugen on Friday October 08, 2010 @05:54PM (#1773576)
Python powerset() with max(), list.remove(), and sum() builtins made the last problem's solution ~5 lines long :)
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Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge by brandon on Friday October 08, 2010 @06:19PM (#1773652)
I don't know about powerset(), but challenge 3 was pretty trivial using Python's itertools module: http://gist.github.com/617663 (warning: spoilers)
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