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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 330.1 | nit alert | NATASH::WEIGL | Turboferrets - racing for answers | Sun Mar 08 1987 20:09 | 3 |
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Good idea, but just a nit - is "I" a legal word in scrabble? It
wasn't last time I checked....
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| 330.2 | Nitted prose | IOSG::DUTT | | Mon Mar 09 1987 04:20 | 2 |
| I guess you never see 1 letter words (except on the first turn)
- but we'll say they are legal for this game.
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| 330.4 | BTW | HBO::KELLIHER | Ed Kelliher | Tue Mar 10 1987 13:01 | 4 |
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You never did tell us what YOUR entry was...
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| 330.5 | Letters pray | IOSG::DUTT | | Wed Mar 11 1987 04:29 | 7 |
| ....but you shuffled the letters!
The one I came up with was.....
A - AT - ATE - LATE - ELATE - RELATE - PRELATE - PRELATES - PRELATESS
.....where the extra letter always goes at one end (or the other).
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| 330.6 | perhaps computer can help | VIDEO::OSMAN | Eric, dtn 223-6664, weight 146 | Fri Mar 20 1987 17:50 | 26 |
| Somewwhere elase herein I've discussed anagrams. One that always
sticks in my mind is INTEGRATIVE=>VINIAGRETTE
The way I programmed the computer to find anagrams was:
1) Take word list and sort each word alphabetically. So some
records now look like this:
opst stop
dgo dog
2) Use the vms SORT command to sort the result. This puts all
anagrams adjacent to each other !
3) Remove the second columns, so that only the alphabetized words
remain. Then use MERGE/NODUPLICATE command in vms. This removes
all anagrams.
4) Use the vms DIFF command to compare the result before and after
the MERGE. The differences indicate exactly where the anagrams
are in the list.
Perhaps someone can think of a similar strategy that could
be used to find chains of words that grow as posed in this topic?
/Eric
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| 330.7 | Not a perfect example | STONED::KELLEHER | Been a long time since I rock 'n rolled -- duh-na, duh-na, duh-n | Fri Apr 03 1987 20:47 | 22 |
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This is one from my childhood... You know, that one book
you read when you were six, and that ONE page that sticks
in your mind..?
And, well, I know this doesn't meet the first- or last-letter
criteria:
I
IN
SIN
SING
STING
STRING
STARLING
STARTLING
EPIGLOTTIS
...I admit I never understood what that
last word was doing there.
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| 330.8 | You missed out STARING | ECLAIR::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Mon Apr 13 1987 09:32 | 1 |
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