From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: ABCDE puzzle
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.484
Posted: Fri Jul 16 09:48:10 1982
Received: Sat Jul 17 01:56:09 1982
References: ihuxv.186

	"That's too easy, it took me 5 minutes to write a program ..."

Well, it took me less than 2 minutes to solve the problem with pen and paper
and a little reasoning.

Why are computer people so enamored of the brute force approach to problem
solving?

=Spencer