Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, Donald Knuth has probably solved this already, as well as it 
can be - but there is always a chance for a better mousetrap, eh?

On 9/30/2014 11:04 AM, John Yeung wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Raul A Jager W <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If you can find an efficient solution, you will deserv a "Nobel price"
> More likely, you'll get a Turing Award, which is roughly equivalent to
> a Nobel Prize, but for computer science.  Or, you might instead get a
> Fields Medal if you're young enough; or an Abel Prize if you're not
> young enough for the Fields.  (Sometimes, the Nobel Prize in economics
> amounts to a kind of "math Nobel", so if you do get a Nobel for
> solving this, it would be that one.)
>
> John Y.