Hi Bill,
<<The subject of "are" is "same-suit 'N-1', both 'N-2's of the opposite
color, and the other same-color 'N-3'.">>
That seems to be correct. I'll concede grammatical correctness. You
tricked me with a plural subject. (Shlomi, I don't consider this
"flaming".)
<<Try this experiment: >>
I'll take your word for it. It's plausible enough. Just wanted to
understand the rationale.
<<You appear to have made the assumption that a string of 52 cards records a
position. It does not. Rather, I was unable to do it. >>
I was for starters just thinking about recording an initial position,
which is just simply the number of ways a deck can be shuffled. I agree, to
represent any intermediate position would take more than 39 bytes if done
brute force.
I see both I and Shlomi have touched upon your limits as to how much of
your family jewels you're ready to reveal. No problem. We'll just have to
wait. There's that time-honored expression "We leave that as an exercise
for the student."
Now, then, if this isn't probing too deeply, what is your approach to
that other class of moves called "supermoves". By my defintion, a supermove
is a singe source-destination expression that permits a human player to move
more cards from point to point than is allowed by M/S Freecell. For that
matter, what is your approach to that subset of multiple-card moves which
are implemented in M/S Freecell? Does it gain advantage for a solver to
choose such moves? You mqy, or course, if you wish, say you're leaving the
answer to that question also as an exercise for the student.
Oh, yes, relative to the MD5 question. When you say MD5 is slow, are you
referring just to the processing time of computing the hash value? Or is
there something else inherent to it that makes it slow? Is part of its
definition the nature of the secondary search? Or is the problem that it
results in a time-consuming secondary search? BTW, thanks for your further
tutorial on hash theory and practice.
Best regards, -----------------Adrian
Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 03:58:55 IST