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		rwalker on Oct 8, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challen... This was intentional - we had to tie break the longest palindrome and we didn't want a quick diff to be able to see what we changed.

Cushman on Oct 9, 2010 | [–]

Never mind that finding the actual text, removing the spaces and caps, and running diff would probably take longer than coding and executing a brute force algorithm :P

Natsu on Oct 9, 2010 | [–]

Why not ask for the rightmost palindrome, then? Just to make it a tiny bit more complex (not that it's very hard to iterate backwards)?

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