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Re: $100.00 Programming Contest

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Mar 02, 2002
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Andy Serpa wrote:

> I just thought of something else:  why judge the words at all?  Just
> judge the solution to the cipher with a score of 1 to 26 (assuming all
> 26 letters appeared in the block, which they probably wouldn't for a
> small one)....

Good point. Consider the case where two programs came up with two solutions. 
Program A correctly guesses the position of the 'e', so more of the text is 
solved. Program B correctly guesses the position of the 'c' and 'k', so more 
letters are solved. Which scores higher?

And I agree that it's not fair to give points for figuring out, for example, 
that "X" = "Q" if the letter Q never appears in the cipher in the first place.

-- David Cuny