[Wellington-pm] SEND + MORE = MONEY

Malcolm Allison Malcolm.Allison at computerland.co.nz
Wed Mar 2 20:58:44 PST 2005


so $a + $a == 1 if $a != $a?

this seems a little like cheating to me  ;)

Malcolm Allison
Enterprise Systems Management Bureau
Computerland NZ



-----Original Message-----
From: wellington-pm-bounces at pm.org [mailto:wellington-pm-bounces at pm.org]
On Behalf Of Ewen McNeill
Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2005 5:55 p.m.
To: Wellington Perl Mongers (Perl user group)
Subject: Re: [Wellington-pm] SEND + MORE = MONEY 

In message <422694C1.7010600 at vilain.net>, Sam Vilain writes:
>    use Quantum::Superpositions;
>    $\="\n";
>
>    my $a = any(1,0);
>    print ($a + $a == 1);  # prints 1, actually impossible
>    print (2 * $a == 1);   # prints any() (ie, none)

$a + $a == 1  is possible if the first $a is taken as 1, and the second
$a is taken as 0 (or vice versa).  Where as there is no value in $a
which can be multiplied by 2 and yeild 1 (you get 2 or 0).

Seems to me that it's working the way that it should there.

So your solution using Quantum::Superpositions may well work.  Just be
prepared for it to take a while.  (Some of my early test runs of my
brute force method took around 12 minutes; a bit of tuning got that down
to the 4 minutes something that I posted.)

Ewen
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