On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:00 PM, yermej wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2:38 pm, Ken Bloom <kbl... / gmail.com> wrote:
>> First testcase:
>> "your banana my banana" should give " banana"
>>
>> --Ken
>>
>> --
>> Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
>> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of  
>> Technology.http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
>
> And a second:
> "aaaaaa" should give "aaa"
>
> Right?

i would think that

'aaaaaa'.longest_repeating_substring #=> 'aaaaa'

the quiz did not say that the two strings could not overlap.

is this correct james?

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