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Did it in Groovy. Getting the text from the Website and comparing it to the previous result. If there is a difference it is shown on the console. The programm ran for 514minutes :D def url = new URL('http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/minuteman.php') def data = url.getText() def result = data def ...

It is possibly not the best Groovy solution, because it looks to much like plain old Java, but it works fine. def text = "93752xxx746x27x1754xx90x93xxxxx" def result = 0 def pointer = 0 textAsChars = text.toList() while(pointer < textAsChars.size()) { curChar = textAsChars[pointer] if(curC...

My solution in Groovy: def words = new File("rfc3280.txt").getText().split() def wordSet = words as Set wordSet = wordSet.findAll { w -> w.size() == 9 } def textMap = [:] wordSet.each { textMap.put(it, words.count(it)) } def result = textMap.values().max() println textMap.findAll { it.valu...

I wanted to solve it with Groovy. Here is the result: