hey, I have troubles understanding the analysis for transmutation: 1. why is it optimal to go top down with the definition it 'optimal' they suggest? why can't it be better to NOT use metal x and instead go for its ingredients directly, as metal x is more rare and needed somewhere else?
2. " a single pass to find the limiting ingredient, and finding an ingredient that we need to replace requires another pass" - why is another pass required? why don't we replace the limiting ingredient? thanks for helping, ido -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/5ac2ad6f-0ea9-42d2-89be-5fd1fc1f87ee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
