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First - Are you coming from a system where a student's rank in class is ordered? In that situation, grades are a zero-sum game, where you may be fighting for Valedictorian status. In the US at least, such things have been a farce for at least 20 years, when I graduated we had 13 Salutatorians in a class of 200, what a joke. The weighted GPA is what matters, even if half the student body has a GPA over 3.5. Nobody here cares what your rank was.
Second - As others have stated - the topic is about bringing the lower-graded students up, not bringing the higher-graded students down. Could you explain why you are reframing the topic?
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I wrote down the solutions ahead of typing them in, in this order, and was extremely frustrated that the answers I came up with, which were correct, did not read your mind. Even more frustrating because when coming up with the solutions I discarded "PEELS" because it's just a four-letter-word with an S at the end, not a proper five-letter-word. It shouldn't have been a solution.guess: "SASSY", target: "BRASS", expect either "YYBGB" or "BYYGB". I believe your algorithm would return "YYYGB".
guess: "BRASS", target: "SASSY", expect "BBYGY"
guess: "ASSET", target: "BRASS", expect "YYYBB"
guess: "BRASS", target: "ASSET", expect "BBYYY"
This is a "Job Description", not a job offer.
Can you expand on that? What were your references when choosing these key commands? Everything else I use chose `?` as the help key. My macbook doesn't even _have_ an `ALT` key...
To nitpick. Starting with 3/100 FF, times 8 unaccounted for, you get 24/121, 20%.