Re: [FWP] Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle (from c.l.p.mod)

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

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Edward M. Perry wrote:
> > This week's Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle With Will Shortz on
> > National Public Radio presents a problem of a class that can be
> > defined as "match a substring of exactly n characters from the
> > unordered set of discrete characters { c1, c2, ..., cn }".
> 
> I heard a similiar problem which supposedly had just one solution.
> A word with abcde in order but not necessarily contiguous:
> 
> /a.*b.*c.*d.*e/ 
> 
> I would like to verify the solution, but alas, no dict on the system.
> 

I found 10 words, which are variations on 3 basic words.

1 of the 10 is a non-inflected word, so that might be the solution
that you had in mind.

Ronald

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