A small programming challenge

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi,


Geoff Canyon-4 wrote
> I worked on this further over the weekend. I'll post again after I've
> formatted everything, but the result now handles any number of cubes from
> 3
> to 26, although anything more than about 14 will probably be too slow. For
> 4 cube puzzles the new code is about four times faster than my old code.
> For 12 cube puzzles it's >100 times faster. 
> I came up with a nice short cut.

and


Alex Tweedly wrote
> Let's see that gave me twenty minutes of fun coding to save 12 millisecs.
> Just as well I enjoyed it, because the time saving didn't justify the
> effort.

Deep bow to both Math Wizards! :D

Al



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