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- From: jefouger@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jim Fougeron)
- Subject: Re: word cracker
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.065713.22390@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Dec30.235126.25601@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 06:57:13 GMT
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- sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano) writes:
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- >OK, gurus! Can anyone solve this problem?
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- >I am looking for a fairly portable "C" program or script that will produce
- >every possible 4 letter or greater combination using the following
- >letters:
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- >c e e f g h i i l l n n o p p r r r s s t t t u
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- >Some of the letters appear more than once and therefore will increase the
- >possible number of combinations possible. I realize that the number of
- >combinations are incredible and will probably consume a great deal of
- >cpu time.
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- I threw together a quick-n dirty pascal triangle generator, and calculated
- the number of combinations needed to complete this project at 8,376,043
- so this is fairly feasible project.
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- Jim Fougeron jefouger@nyx.cs.du.edu
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