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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+my @A = ( 3, 10, 8, 23, 34, 52, 343, 23, 123, 11, 898, 238, 2, 567, 98 );
+#my @A = (3, 10, 8);
+#my @A = (12, 2, 10);
+
+my $sza = scalar @A;
+
+die ( "we're not really processing > 32 nums w/ this algorithm." ) if ( $sza > 32 );
+die ( "we're only processing nums here!" ) if ( grep /\D/, @A );
+
+my @output = @{ (
+   map { $_ }
+   sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] || $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
+   grep { $_->[0] > -1 } map {
+   
+      my @k = split //, $_;
+   
+      my $sum = 0;
+      my $nsum = 0;
+      my @sum = ();
+      for (0 .. $#k) {
+   
+         my $acc = $A[$_];
+         if ( $k[$_] eq "1" ) {
+            $acc *= -1;
+            $nsum++;
+         }
+   
+         push @sum, $acc;
+         $sum += $acc;
+      }
+   
+      [ $sum, $nsum, @sum ];
+   
+   } 
+   map { sprintf "%0".$sza."b", $_ } ( 0 .. (2 ** $sza) -1 )
+)[0] };
+
+my $sum = shift @output;
+my $nsum = shift @output;
+
+print "\n";
+print "Input: @A\n";
+print "Output: $nsum\n";
+
+print "Flipping the sign of just " . ( $nsum < 2 ?"one element " :($nsum . " elements ") ) . "("
+   . ( join ", ", map { $_ * -1} grep { $_ < 0 } @output ) .  ") gives the result $sum.\n";
+
+print " i.e.: " . join " + ", map {"(" . $_ . ")" } @output;
+print "\n";
+print "\n";
+
+exit (0);