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From: "R. Clayton" <rclayton@monmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:20:58 -0400 (EDT)
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Oh, wow - synchronicity.
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Status: RO
I was horrified when I realized that the sentence: "the quick brown fox
jumped over the lazy dog" actually repeats some letters; (yes
compulsive/obsessive personality disorder).So the problem is : "What is the
greatest number of non-repeating alphabetic characters (case insensitive) in
a gramatically correct English sentence."
You may think this is an idle, fatuous problem but it's not. I recently bought
a set of 26 magnetic letters for my office door and made the same shocking
discovery that Rohan McLeod made, which immediately led me to a similar
question: What's the best 26 non-repeating letter sentence? Unfortunately, my
icon investigations into this problem are unfinished, having been stopped at
the words-into-sentences part by other matters (which, co-incidentally enough,
include the data structures course I'm teaching this summer - perhaps there is
some synegery here too).