Re: Low level folks: Beat this!

From: Jud McCranie (youknowwhat.mccranie_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0400

>I got an integer overflow in your program with checks on. I hope that
>won't affect the results. Then I turned the checks off and
>optimization on.

BTW, your first and third algorithms gave incorrect results when I ran
them for 8 queens. 

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