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power
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Letter match--the 28 letter version!
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Dec 11 21:58 UTC 1993 |
Ok, since we went to 6 letter letter match, let's take it to the next
logical step--letter match, with 28 letter words!
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power
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response 1 of 45:
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Dec 11 21:58 UTC 1993 |
Ok, I'm thinking of a 28 letter word...
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jdg
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response 2 of 45:
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Dec 12 04:14 UTC 1993 |
antidisestablishmentarianism
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srw
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response 3 of 45:
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Dec 12 06:25 UTC 1993 |
12dihydroxymethylethylketone
Mathematicians/numerologists.. Anyone out there notice?
A direct jump from 6 to 28 .. See the connection?
(Oops sorry this is the language conference.)
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remmers
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response 4 of 45:
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Dec 12 10:27 UTC 1993 |
(Yep, I see the connection.)
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rcurl
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response 5 of 45:
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Dec 12 19:38 UTC 1993 |
That would have to be (1,2-dihydroxyethyl)methylketone. Punctuated
words have not been legit in Letter Match. Now, octaphenylcyclotetrasiloxane
(M.I. 6565) would be OK. And, re #3,4: I don't see the connection yet. But
I do see that 6-Letter Match seems to inherit the ennui generated by too
much 5-Letter Match. Just as Barogue degenerated to Roccoco, so 5 and 6
have degenerated to 28. We better all go to the new Item, and start
writing French.
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jdg
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response 6 of 45:
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Dec 12 22:12 UTC 1993 |
re 5: as far as I can tell, the connection is "6 plus 2 equals 8" because
the question was phrased "numerologists" and as far as I know, that is
a pseudology, and requires the most simplistic answer possible.
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power
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response 7 of 45:
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Dec 13 01:21 UTC 1993 |
Mr. Jdg has it, with antidisestablishmentarianism! Your turn to give
a word to guess!
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srw
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response 8 of 45:
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Dec 13 06:17 UTC 1993 |
While we're waiting for another 28 letter word, I just wanted to say:
Re #5: Yeah I was afraid those punctuations would do me in.
I was applying "chemical license" mainly because jdg had already
guessed the only 28 letter word I know. (Read, I cheated)
Re #7: jdg may have the conn for the next 28 letter word (heh heh)
but he hasn't figured out the connection.
Hint: divisors.
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aa8ij
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response 9 of 45:
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Dec 13 08:57 UTC 1993 |
I'm crazy enough to beileve that 13*9=21. ask me about that sometime ;)
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srw
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response 10 of 45:
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Dec 14 06:50 UTC 1993 |
1,2,and 3 divide 6
1,2,4,7,14 divide 28
Since each is the sum of its divisors, each is known
(in certain arcane math circles) as a "perfect number"
There are not very many of these. 6 is the 1st, 28 the second.
I can't remember the third, but it's pretty big.
My #1 son's birthday is doubly perfect - June 28.
Most people would find a fact like that a help in
remembering which numbers were perfect numbers.
For some bizarre reason, though, I find that it helps
me remember his birthday. :-)
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aa8ij
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response 11 of 45:
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Dec 14 08:23 UTC 1993 |
Does this mean that becaue I was born on 11/*27* I am imperfect?
I feel like a borg ;)
My mom was born on 3.28 so I guess she is perfect, which is fine for a
mom like mine.
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rcurl
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response 12 of 45:
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Dec 14 14:48 UTC 1993 |
"Perfect numbers entered arithmetic with the Pythagoreans, who attributed
mystical and slightly nonsensical virtues to them." (I see we are still
at it.) "Euclid and Euler between them proved that an *even* number is
perfect if, and only if, it is of the form 2^c(2^(c+1)-1), where
2^(c+1)-1 is *prime*. So to every Mersenne prime there corresponds an
*even* perfect number. But what about *odd* perfect numbers? Are there
any? The question was still unanswered in 1950 after about 2,300 years."
The next two *even* perfect numbers are therefore 496 and 8128, FWIW.
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jdg
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response 13 of 45:
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Dec 14 22:53 UTC 1993 |
I'm *not* thinking of a 28 letter word.
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power
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response 14 of 45:
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Dec 14 23:58 UTC 1993 |
WIMP!!!! :)
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rcurl
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response 15 of 45:
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Dec 15 02:25 UTC 1993 |
I'm thinking of an N letter word.
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aa8ij
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response 16 of 45:
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Dec 15 04:19 UTC 1993 |
heh.
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srw
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response 17 of 45:
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Dec 15 04:40 UTC 1993 |
Maybe you should move it to the n-letter wordgame item.
(Although I guess it would be OK to commandeer this one since we seem
to have run out of 28 letter words.)
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remmers
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response 18 of 45:
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Dec 15 09:08 UTC 1993 |
I'm thinking of an aleph-null letter word.
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robh
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response 19 of 45:
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Dec 15 15:01 UTC 1993 |
Aleph, huh? You fiend! Picking words in Hebrew! Okay, I guess
"g'veret".
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power
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response 20 of 45:
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Dec 15 16:12 UTC 1993 |
Aleph-null refers to an order of infinity. He means that it has as many
letters as there are natural numbers (which happens to be the same as
the number of integers and rationals, interestingly enough, although different
from the number of reals, which is an uncountable infinity)...
How about GNU? ('GNU is not Unix' is recursive, and thus goes to infinity,
and if you assign 1 to the first, and the successor of natural number
associated with the previous recursion to each successive recursion, you
can easily see that it is a countable infinity)...
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remmers
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response 21 of 45:
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Dec 15 19:52 UTC 1993 |
power: aleph null !!!
Congratulations. power's turn...
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power
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response 22 of 45:
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Dec 15 22:55 UTC 1993 |
I'm thinking of a 16 bit word with odd parity... :) which Apple //
assembly programmers might have a slight advantage on....
(ha! beats even an aleph null length word...)...
To make it slightly more possible, when displayed in hex, this is a very
alphabetic looking word...
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robh
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response 23 of 45:
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Dec 15 23:27 UTC 1993 |
FADE.
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srw
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response 24 of 45:
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Dec 16 01:49 UTC 1993 |
0xfeed
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