Talk:Dinesman's multiple-dwelling problem: Difference between revisions

→‎Why stated like that?: Futile exageration?
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:About the python solution: parsing natural language is FUTILE unless you specify a clear subset of English language you are going to use. Is your program able to parse "A lives somewhere below B"? Or "A's floor is no higher than 4"? Or if one of the characters involved is in fact named "Mr. Floor?" I don't think one should go on writing a parser without a clear spec of what text might be involved. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 00:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
::Hmm [http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/futile futile]? I think not. But I did recognise a need to state the extent of the language recognised but chose, out of expediency, to instead state some of the variations allowed and give a single extra example. The type of variation allowed and showed in the Python example, such as not relying on fixed names is more than that shown in some other examples. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 01:13, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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