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

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: Heh there's no way to reliably parse English text, unless the text is restricted to be following some syntax rules. The question is rather, are you more interested in seeing how people provide methods for flexible input, or how people solve the dwelling problem? Which is the emphasis of this task? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 08:46, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 
::I thought finding a solution is no problem - brute force it if you must. The emphasis should be on stating the problem and presenting the resultwresult w.r.t. the problem as stated. I tried to give hints that parsing the text of the problem statement allowing for variability, as well as stating what that variability is, is an avenue one might want to follow. The right answer is <u>expected</u>. How you get to it is very important. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 17:20, 25 June 2011 (UTC)