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and also using Most Parts score for evolving solutions to
Mastermind. I was introduced in "Improving and Scaling Evolutionary
Approaches to the MasterMind Problem", by Merelo, Cotta and Mora which we
expect you will cite if you include this in your work.

=head1 INTERFACE

=head2 factorial

Computes factorial, needed as a default value for the permutation operator 

=head2 initialize

Initializes the genetic part of the algorithm

=head2 issue_next()

Issues the next combination, using this method.

=head2 compute_fitness()

Processes "raw" fitness to assign fitness once consistency and/or
distance to it is known. It's lineally scaled to make the lowes
combination = 1

=head2 eliminate_last_played()

Eliminates the last string played to avoid having problems in the
population, and substitute it for a random one. 

=head1 AUTHOR

JJ Merelo  C<< <jj@merelo.net> >>


=head1 LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009, 2012 JJ Merelo C<< <jj@merelo.net> >>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See L<perlartistic>.


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