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Is it just me, or is that problem description completely incoherent?

• krackers 4y ago
  It took me way too long to understand it as well. And the fact that you press backspace _instead_ of a character, instead of allowing backspace to be pressed at any time (which would turn it into checking if B is a subsequence of A I believe).
• zug_zug 4y ago
  Good god I'm not alone. For me it's fascinating that an AI can make sense of that garble of words. I spent 4 minutes trying to read it and gave up.
• drexlspivey 4y ago
  Problem: You open a terminal and type the string ‘ababa’ but you are free to replace any button presses with backspace. Is there a combination where the terminal reads `ba` at the end?
  • lisper 4y ago
    Thanks, your version makes a lot more sense.
  • hoten 4y ago
    If the AI could do this simplification just as you did, I'd find that far more exciting!