Problem 196. love is an n-letter word
Given a list of N words, return the N-letter word (choosing one letter from each word) with the property of having the least distance between each pair of two consecutive letters (if there are multiple optimal solutions return any one of them).
Example: s1 = {'abcd','bcde','cdef','defg'}; should return s2 = 'dddd'; (with total letter-distance = 0)
Example: s1={'aldfejk','czoa','vwy','abcde'}; should return s2='love'; (with total letter-distance = 27: 'l'-'o'=3 + 'o'-'v'=7 + 'v'-'e'=17 ; compare for example to the possible word 'aave' which has a total letter-distance of 38)
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does somebody understand why
diff( ‘test’ )
in my solution 19016 causes this error
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FLEXnet Licensing error: 0,0.
it doesn’t in my local Matlab ( 2011a )
apparently it tries to call an overloaded diff ( probably from the symbolic toolbox ) for which it doesn’t have a license
@Martijn: I am not sure why that is happening but in the meantime using "diff(double('test'))" should work fine
fixed look-up table hack
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