On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of > the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort condition. > > Example: > List 1: dog, cat, mouse > List 2: dog, shark, mouse, elephant > > There are 2 possible outputs, and I do not care which one I get.
Out of curiosity, does it have to handle something like this? List 1: dog, cat, mouse List 2: dog, shark, mouse, elephant List 3: apple, pear, orange That is, "outliers", I guess. Or this? List 1: dog, cat, mouse List 2: dog, shark, mouse, elephant List 3: elephant, dog That is, "loops", I guess. Seems like edge cases like that could make this non-determistic. -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
