note MeowChow Damn you and your <strike>NP-complete</strike> problems! =) Well, I'm lazy, and decided to implement a greedy, suboptimal heuristic: <code> sub bacon { my%t=@_;(sort{@{$t{$b}}<=>@{$t{$a}}}keys%t)[0] } </code> At least it's fast, if not correct. :) <pre> <a href="/index.pl?node=MeowChow"> MeowChow </a> s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print</pre> 80272 80272