Grid Speed
A puzzle in the March 2004 issue of
Scientific American
that piqued my fancy. I wrote a Perl script to explore some solutions,
and as a result let myself get talked into writing a Java version for
the web.
Here is a version for
Netscape 4.77, a version for
Netscape 6 and above, and a version for
M$IE. (I got it to work best on
Netscape 4.77, not at all on Netscape 7.1 and flakey on M$IE. I think
I need to get Java 1.4 for Netscape 7.1.
I don't have much experience with Java, and so far, I don't think much of it.
I hope you have better luck than I did.)
Here is the source. Here is
the very quick and dirty Perl
version. GridSpeedApplet.java
and gridspeed Perl script are both available under the
GNU General Public License
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