Subj : Re: puzzle
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Wed Jun 29 2005 05:00 pm

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:01:07 -0500, spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote
(in article 
<1120038300.118485.221930@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> 
> 
> 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.

Only because it took you so long to understand it.  By your own 
admission, if you had thought of it first you would have had a 
different opinion.  You're really just upset at being caught out 
(yet again) by posting an incredibly poor solution to a 
programming problem that others blew holes in.

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