Bug in Self-Enumerating Sentence
Joel Meulenberg
joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 29 18:50:22 CDT 2000
> --- slagertj at rapistan.com wrote:
> > Hey, why were the six (make that seven when you list it) w's left
> > out? Another
> > hydra!
>
> Well, it looks like we have a "fool" in our midst! My spirits are
> uplifted. My faith is restored.
>
> Thanks Tim.
>
> Corrected sentence is below. Note that I merely forgot to include
> the
> "w" phrase. Whew! Hydra head wound - precauterized. (According to
> mythology, unless you cauterized the wound after lopping off one of
> the
> Hydra's heads, it would immediately sprout two more heads.)
>
> (BTW, thanks Tim. Hydra is a much better metaphor than Whack a
> Mole.)
>
> BTW, anyone got any Perl code to help find self-enumerating
> sentences?
> That brute force exhaustive search has reawakened my virtuous
> laziness.
> : )
>
> - OB/Djinn Kenobe
>
> =====
> only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was
> composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's,
> sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's,
> four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's,
> forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four
> x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven
> hyphens and, last but not least, a single !
=====
only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !
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