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- From: breuker@cs.rulimburg.nl (Dennis Breuker)
- Subject: Re: Solitaire games
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.125317.8741@cs.rulimburg.nl>
- Organization: University of Limburg
- References: <4906@balrog.ctron.com> <Btyo5z.D8q@cs.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 12:53:17 GMT
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- morgan@math.psu.edu (Ilene Morgan) writes:
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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."
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- >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
-
- How about exemplify? (grep 'x[a-z]*p[a-z]*v' /usr/dict/words)
-
- Dennis Breuker
- (breuker@cs.rulimburg.nl)
-