About SUPER GENIUS

The Name

Pronounce it Wile E. Coyote style: Suuuper Geeeneeyus. No, I don't really attribute genius to this program, hence the silly pronunciation.

The Computer

In a sense, SUPER GENIUS is running on uriel.eclipsed.net, a PowerMac 7500 running NetBSD 1.4-(almost)current.

The Algorithm

Come on, you can figure it out. Seriously. Go back and think about it some more.

It's really simple.

OK, as a hint, ask it whether an apple is a macintosh or a fruit. Or ask it whether a carbon is a element or a dioxide

Got it yet?

No?

Fine. Here is the answer.


                                :skrow it woH

        :sretne margorp eht ,"?hsif a ro lammam a raeb a sI" yreuq eht roF

                            lammam RAEN "si raeb"
                              hsif RAEN "si raeb"

 ,lammam snruter ti ,stih egap bew tsom eht steg lammam fI .atsiVatlA otni
                                    ?ti t'nsi elpmiS .sniw hsif fi hsif or

The Credit

Again, John Rieffel thought this up. I implemented it. AltaVista does the grunt work. gabriel rosenkoetter generously provided the server space on uriel.eclipsed.net.

Tom Stepleton - tss@sccs.swarthmore.edu