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