On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ton schreef op 06 maart 2002: > > The current use of fractionals is just fine: the bigger > > the number, the worse your score. > > 54.25 Stephen Turner > > Is this a misprint? Are you really saying that Stephen solved > this problem with only 25% of his characters being \w\s ??
25.9%, but yes. We were meant to avoid \w\s, right? > That is genius! > Well, it's kind of you to say that, but it would be even better if it were shorter as well! The fact that every single person ahead of me is on about ..5 fractional part makes me think that I'm pursuing a sub-optimal strategy. > As you might suspect, however, lurking off the leaderboard, > there is at least one entry with a zero percentage. :) > A whole collection of them, I shouldn't wonder! -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
