[FWP] 100 point words.

[Brent Michalski <perlguy@technologist.com>]

Last summer my son came home with an assignment to find as many words as
he could that add up to 100 points.  With A=1, B=2, ... Z=26

We were going on vacation that week and had 2 10 hour drives in the
car.  At the end of the 20 hours, we had 4 or 5 words that added up to
100.  PRINTER is a word that adds up to 100.

Well, it was driving me nuts so I told him that when we got back, i'd
write a Perl program to figure this out for us.  The kid who found the
most words got a prize :-)  [motivation]...

Anyway, I wrote a program in about 15 minutes with about 20 lines of
code.  We ran it against several dictionary files and came up with 10
4-column pages with words that add up to 100!

It would be fun to create such a program and run it against a
"standard/common" dictionary and see who could do it in the coolest, or
shortest, way...

What do you think?

Brent

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