Subj : Re: puzzle
To   : comp.programming
From : spinoza1111
Date : Wed Jun 29 2005 04:01 am



pete wrote:
> spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > I conclude that the XOR solution is junk, in part because I didn't
> > think of it, and in part because it sucks. It requires either a magic
> > transformation of integers into their binary representation,
> > acceptable
> > in practical contexts, but theoretically unacceptable.
>
> The notion that bitwise operations would be off topic
> in a comp.programming puzzle, is bizarre.

I didn't say that bitwise operations were offtopic. I said that as a
solution illustrative of complexity theory they suck and blow.
> 
> -- 
> pete

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