Re: [FWP] Puzzle thread on clpmod

["Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>]

At 04:12 PM 7/7/99 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "RJK" == Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu> writes:
>
>RJK> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:33:46AM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> >> At 01:21 PM 7/7/99 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> >> >On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:51:00PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >> > > How about the slightly shorter (join '', sort split //, lc) =~ 
> /^abcde/
> >> >
> >> >Shorter but incorrect (see clpmod).  It does not work properly with
> >> >duplicate letters, and it does not require the 5 letters to be 
> consecutive.
> >>
> >> Well the consecutive nature is handled by the sort (which will arrange 
> them
> >> into consecutive order if they're there), so you could try:
>
>RJK> No, the consecutive order is _ruined_ by the sort.  The letters must be
>RJK> consecutive in the original word.  After it's sorted, of course they're
>RJK> consecutive, but that's meaningless.
>
>Looks like I'm not the only one that understood the problem as
>requiring consecutive letters of the alphabet. Not as in the
>the letters should be together in the word.

Yup. After rereading the puzzle and the example they gave (SU BDEAC ON), it 
became clearer to me what was being asked for...

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