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Re:Some math about the Engineyard contest by sophacles on Friday July 17, 2009 @12:36PM (#710223)
A simple criterion would be "capable of calculating the most results", which can be objective and meets some definitions of "best algorithm".
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Re:Some math about the Engineyard contest by antirez on Friday July 17, 2009 @02:24PM (#710433)
A simpler and less biased way IMHO is that if two teams will end with a result of, for instance, 30, but one team was able to find two or more strings, this is the winner.
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