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Re:Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions by ikarous on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:56AM (#2828601)
The problem's description is deceptively simple. It poses at the end a combinatorics problem that is non-trivial. I submitted a correct solution after a bit of research; my first approach was the naive solution.
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Re:Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions by tootlol on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @01:38AM (#2835957)
How did you submit the solution with a library? Doesn't upload mechanism assume only 1 file?
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Re:Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions by helpmehn on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:22PM (#2828670)
If, by "non-trivial," you mean NP-hard, I agree. :-)
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Re:Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions by ikarous on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:33PM (#2828711)
I was trying to be vague so as not to give hints to those interested in trying the challenge. Evidently, I am utterly guileless.
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Re:Ask HN: Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions by helpmehn on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:49PM (#2828768)
Given the number of combinatorial optimization problems that are NP-hard, I don't think that gives anything away to anyone who doesn't already know what you're talking about.
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