NPR puzzle

[Glenn E. Fisher]

Jim,

Here is my submission that ran in 70 milliseconds on my 5 1/2 year old 
G4 450 MHz tower:

   set cursor to watch
   put the milliseconds into t
   put fld "ChemSymbols" into c
   put fld "dictionary" into d
   repeat for each line L in d
     if c contains char 1 to 2 of L and c contains char 3 to 4 of L\
     and c contains char 5 to 6 of L and c contains char 7 to 8 of L\
     and c contains char 9 to 10 of L then
       put L & CR after o
     end if
   end repeat
   put the milliseconds -t into t
   put o into fld "Output"
   put "time=" & t && "msecs" after fld "Output"

Cheers,
Glenn

On Jul 20, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> For my fellow puzzle addicts:
>
> Here is this weeks NPR puzzle (Sunday Weekend edition)
>
> Sunday Puzzle
>
> By Will Shortz
>
>
> Challenge for July 24:
>
> A 10-letter word for a form of travel, that consists of five
> consecutive symbols of chemical elements. What is it? If automobile
> had been the answer, AU, would represent Gold, MO would represent
> Molybdenum, and BI, would represent Bismuth. Unfortunately, the
> remaining bigrams, TO and LE, are not chemical symbols.
>
>
> I have put up a stack with two fields. The first contains all 10
> letter words in my dictionary.
>
> The second contains all two character elements from the periodic
> table.
>
> You task, should you choose to adopt it, is to write a Run Rev
> handler to solve this weeks NPR puzzle defined above.
>
> In the message box:
>
> go stack url  "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/NPRpuzzle.rev"
>
> Jim
> __________________________
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