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From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Unkown type?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:41:14 -0700
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"I.N. Galidakis" <morpheus@olympus.mons> writes:

> While tinkering with Maple 9, I've encountered what looks like a type
> I've never seen before:
>
> true,
> 24 true,
> 13 true + 24 false
>
> This comes from an evaluation function for a board puzzle. It works
> ok, but how do I convert this type to its ordinal so I can do
> comparisons?
>
> I have a list of such values and I need to pick the element with the
> highest value.

What is the value of the ordinal of the above?  24?  24*false?  

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Joe Riel