Just an update where i am. I've got two algorithms in the works ... a really slow one and a really fast one. The numbers are like follows:

slow one: 232

fast one: 267

The fast one does the big string in under half a second. The slow one does the medium string in like 30 minutes or something - can't even bear to wait for it to finish [Wink]

[ 24. December 2002, 07:11: Message edited by: Shawn ]