On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Eric Lavigne wrote:

> Congratulations to Jim Wilson for his Python solution to this year's
> Codeslinger championship. Several of us hammered away with brute force
> solutions, but Jim sliced through this problem with a quick and simple
> approach based on "greedy" grouping. We continued trying for half an
> hour after Jim submitted his solution, but still none of us could
> solve the problem.

For those who don't make it to the meetings, is the problem posted 
anywhere?...so we can take a whack at it before seeing the solution(s).

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