On Jan 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> I wonder what the highest possible ratio is? The best I have come >> up with so far is 0.5238 (33/63) by modifying Matthew's 60-stroke >> solution: > >One can get as close to 0.833 as one wants, by writing something like: > > $&&=s&&&&&s&&&; > >and adding as many 's&&&&&'s after the = as needed to obtain the desired >ratio.
Add another & on the LHS. ;) $&&&=s&&&&&s&&&; etc. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
