Date   : Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:10:25 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: OT bbc money,

2009/9/27 Rob <robert@...>:

> Question - is it unfair if you spend the entire time a puzzle is being
> run, some good number of hours, working out how it's done by writing a
> program to decipher it, such that the next time a similar but even
> more complicated puzzle appears, you can be the first caller in and
> get it right ... much to their consternation!

I don't think so - after all, there are no rules on how you solve the
puzzles! If you work out a way to solve them very quickly, then it's
everyone else's problem that they haven't done so too.

-- 
Alex Taylor