Posted by Schraalhans Keukenmeester on 06/16/07 07:42

At Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:16:22 +0200, gosha bine let h(is|er) monkeys type:

> On 14.06.2007 22:47 Nick Halstead wrote:
>> Want to test your PHP programming skills? I have just launched a PHP
>> programming contest on my blog.
>>
>> The problem
>>
>> Many years ago there used to be a UK television quiz show (I am sure
>> there has probably been many versions in other countries) that
>> required the contestants to transform one word into another one letter
>> at a time. The only rule was that each letter change must also result
>> in a real word. Here is an example.
>>
>> * Hand
>> * Band Changed 'H' to 'B'
>> * Bond Changed 'A' to 'O'
>> * Fond Changed 'B' to 'F'
>> * Food Changed 'N' to 'O'
>> * Foot Changed 'D' to 'T'
>>
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_closure
>
> hope this helps ;)

LOL, Roy-Floyd to the rescue! To OP: while I applaud your contest
initiative, I think this puppy's been kicked around a tad too often to be
really challenging. Haven't you got a few other ideas? Perhaps something
that has some typical PHP challenges in it?

--
Schraalhans Keukenmeester - schraalhans@the.Spamtrapexample.nl
[Remove the lowercase part of Spamtrap to send me a message]

"strcmp('apples','oranges') < 0"

[Back to original message]