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Date: 30 Jun 2000 09:31:28 BST
From: rjhare@ed.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Oh, wow - synchronicity.
To: "R. Clayton" <rclayton@monmouth.edu>
cc: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
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Status: RO
> 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).
There's a good article on just this topic in one of Stephen Jay Goulds books -
from memory, it's in `Bully For Brontosaurus', but I'm not absolutely sure.
I think that one of the attempts in the article is:
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
If it's not, I have no memory of where I got that one, but it's `better' than
the fox thing...
Roger Hare