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Just for the fun of it..

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:43 pm
by newdep
I just ran into the Quote below and found it quiet funny, did not count it though,
but my first thought was "how to bake this sentence in newlisp" ;-)

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 !



http://www.rinkworks.com/words/autograms.shtml

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:25 pm
by cormullion
tricky!

There's a bit of discussion about this in Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas - and on the wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram. I think the original was in Dutch...

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:51 pm
by newdep
And the more i look and think about that sentence the crazier I get..
...Its realy a great line...