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  6. From: "Marcel Hendrix" <m.a.m.hendrix@nl.cis.philips.com>
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  8. Subject: Re: New Scientist Puzzle
  9. Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:22:07 +0100
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  22. "Steve Graham" <js.graham@home.com> wrote in message news:ERfp6.359416$ge4.127024410@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com...
  23. >    I'm been quite pleased with the reception which this puzzle has received,
  24. > particularly in the APL newsgroup.  You can see a compilation of most of the
  25. > solutions at http://members.home.net/js.graham/vierneun.html
  26.  
  27. It is interesting to look at the solution strategies followed. Unfortunately
  28. I can't read (most) of them... It would be nice if there were explanations of
  29. the diverse approaches for non-multilinguists to read.
  30.  
  31. For instance, APL has a 5 line solution, but seems to use a monstrous
  32. array on which it does pattern matching? I could (and would like to)
  33. learn a great deal by implementing such strategies in other languages.
  34.  
  35. -marcel
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