On Jan 29, 3:53 pm, Thomas Hafner <tho... / hafner.NL.EU.ORG> wrote: > "Trans" <transf... / gmail.com> wrote/schrieb <1170083352.801941.114... / p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>: > > > there are two considerations though: 1) your implementation retains > > an additional array level for each initial possibility. is that > > desired behavior?I don't yet understand what you mean. What's the ``initial > possibility''? Do you want to say that I did waste CPU time for a > needless loop execution? Which one? no no, i mis-read the output. it was a mistake on my part. sorry. > It was just my first attempt to implement it, and that somehow > accidentally was the result. I'm not unlucky with it, at least it > seems to work with just a few lines of code. understood. actually i have a VERY fast implementation already that was written by Michael Neuman. to be so fast it's very ugly though :-) want to see? but i mean to credit you with the name change, b/c you made me aware that my current name is a misnomer. T.