SPUG: Stick Riddle

[Fred Morris]

What I've witnessed, following this whole thread is true reverse
engineering: i.e., given a poorly specified problem and an undocumented
solution, an attempt to determine what djinn the original problem solver
was listening to; my gut tells me Michael has found it.

Michael Wolf wote:
>
>Damian Conway <damian at conway.org> writes:
>
>[code elided...]
>
>Using Damain's code as a base, I changed two assumptions.
>
> * I always break the left-most (not longest) piece on the second break.
>
> * The second break point is independent of the first break point.
>
>Here's the modified code, which yeilds legal triangles 49.592% of the
>time.
>
>================================================================
>

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Fred Morris
m3047 at inwa.net



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