| Title: | Mathematics at DEC |
| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Lee Sallows found the following pangram: "This pangram contains four a's, one b, two c's, one d, thirty e's, six f's, five g's, seven h's, eleven i's, one j, one k, two l's, two m's, eighteen n's, fifteen o's, two p's, one q, five r's, twenty-seven s's, eighteen t's, two u's, seven v's, eight w's, two x's, three y's & one z." Furthermore, he challenges: "I bet 10 guilders nobody can come up a self-enumerating solution (or proof of its nonexistence) to the sentence beginning 'This computer-generated pangram contains ... and ...' within the next ten years."
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 156.1 | TURTLE::GILBERT | Tue Dec 18 1984 10:32 | 11 | ||
After being announced in October 1984's Scientific American, Sallow's challenge was met quickly. This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, thirteen o's, three p's, one q, fourteen r's, twenty-nine s's, twenty-four t's, five u's, six v's, seven w's, four x's, five y's and one z. This solution, found by four pangrammatists, appears in the January '85 issue of Scientific American. | |||||