On Aug 28, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Levin Alexander wrote:
> An interesting chain to stress-test your algorithms is "sahara" <->  
> "cloudy" (46 links)
> (in my dictionary at least)

Mine is missing many of the words in that chain. What dictionary is  
yours?

>
> $ time ruby word_chains.rb sahara cloudy
> sahara
> samara
> tamara
> tamera
> tamers
> tapers
> capers
> caters
> waters
> wavers
> savers
> severs
> levers
> levees
> levies
> bevies
> belies
> belied
> belted
> bolted
> boated
> coated
> crated
> craned
> cranes
> cranks
> cracks
> crocks
> croaks
> creaks
> creeks
> creels
> cruels
> cruets
> crusts
> crests
> chests
> cheats
> cleats
> bleats
> bloats
> floats
> flouts
> clouts
> clouds
> cloudy
>
> real  0m28.984s
> user  0m9.243s
> sys   0m0.755s
>
>