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- From: morgan@math.psu.edu (Ilene Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Solitaire games
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- Organization: Penn State Department of Mathematics
- References: <4906@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:20:22 GMT
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- In article <4906@balrog.ctron.com> wilson@web.ctron.com (David Wilson) writes:
- >
- >
- > I used to put three hours a day on the road to and from work. My
- > game was to factor license plate numbers in my head (preferably
- > before I lost sight of the car). A simpler game was to try to
- > break the numbers on the license plate into two groups whose sum is
- > the same.
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >David W. Wilson (wilson@ctron.com)
- >
- >Disclaimer: "Truth is just truth...You can't have opinions about truth."
- >- Peter Schikele, introduction to P.D.Q. Bach's oratorio "The Seasonings."
-
- My game with license plates is to try to find a word that contains the
- letters of the license plate in order, not necessarily consecutively.
- For example, XPV -> expressive. My license plate used to have XPF; I never
- did think of one for that.
-
- Ilene
-