Re: Nearest Common Ancestor Report (XDb1's $1000 Challenge)
From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 17 May 2004 23:08:50 -0700
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Date: 17 May 2004 23:08:50 -0700
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> There's one difference in the output: the "things" fido and
> laptop1 have two common ancestors at the same distance (john and mary),
> but Xdb1 is only able to find john. I consider this to be a bug in Xdb1's
> output, since john is definitely NOT a "nearer" common ancestor that mary.
XDb1's code is designed to print any one of the nearest common ancestor. If your method prints all the nearest common ancestor, that is fine, if not better. Received on Tue May 18 2004 - 08:08:50 CEST