10 is a stretch. After a couple hours of computing several hundreds of millions of attempts, the best I achieved was a distance of 43 bits (assuming duplicate words are acceptable).
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This task is so unbalanced as a contest. The thought of spending a couple hundred dollars of cloud computing time to just buy more 'lottery tickets' for $3000 worth of prizes (assuming you could use the cloud time) is too much of a stretch for me.
10 is a huge stretch. My testing in C++ agrees with you. The lowest score I've gotten is 41 after about 12 hours. Sure, I may get lucky and get one in the high 30's or something, but it would just be blind luck and persistence, nothing more. Not a very cool contest IMO.
jruby rubinius MRI Cloud postgresSQL record MRI exception record mongrel tokyo Cloud
This task is so unbalanced as a contest. The thought of spending a couple hundred dollars of cloud computing time to just buy more 'lottery tickets' for $3000 worth of prizes (assuming you could use the cloud time) is too much of a stretch for me.