Re: [FWP] Puzzle thread on clpmod

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:43:29AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> RJK wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:51:20AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > > RJK wrote:
> > > > Counting variations, I have 26 words which fit (including those from the
> > > > original puzzle).
> > 
> > On the other hand, I have been humbled by the list of words Ken Pizzini
> > posted for 'abcde': he found 18 words which contain 'abcde' consecutively.
> > My word list only has 8.
> 
> So, where did you find the 26?

You had asked about words containing any 5 consecutive letters that are
also consecutive in the alphabet.  So, 8 of my 26 are for 'abcde', but the
others are for 'bcdef', 'cdefg', 'defgh', etc.


Ronald

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