[r-t] Composition search?

[Alan Burlison]

On 22 November 2015 at 14:00, John Harrison <john at jaharrison.me.uk> wrote:

>> It means that at the end of any lead the 7 & 8 must be in one of these
>> positions: 1*****78, 1****8*7, 1**8*7**, 18*7****, 178*****, 1*7*8***,
>> 1***7*8*
>
> ... ie the coursing order must be:  (8)7xxxxx

Ah, that makes a little more sense, thanks. I was wondering what was
required to have a go at improving on the current time.  I wouldn't be
able to use SMC32 as I wouldn't be doing the runs on Windows so I'd
have to use something else and was wondering how complicated it would
be to do.