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Re^7: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

by LanX (Saint)
on Oct 05, 2013 at 14:51 UTC ( [id://1057041]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^6: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words
in thread Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

Yeah I agree about 12_461_993

Anyway you don't need to check against all words in the dictionary, only taking the (at most) 256 subsets of a potential 8 letter combination. (less if letters are repeated)

This can be done in a lookup in a prepared count-hash with normalized keys.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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