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Ok, since we went to 6 letter letter match, let's take it to the next logical step--letter match, with 28 letter words!
45 responses total.
Ok, I'm thinking of a 28 letter word...
antidisestablishmentarianism
12dihydroxymethylethylketone Mathematicians/numerologists.. Anyone out there notice? A direct jump from 6 to 28 .. See the connection? (Oops sorry this is the language conference.)
(Yep, I see the connection.)
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.
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.
Mr. Jdg has it, with antidisestablishmentarianism! Your turn to give a word to guess!
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.
I'm crazy enough to beileve that 13*9=21. ask me about that sometime ;)
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. :-)
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.
"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.
I'm *not* thinking of a 28 letter word.
WIMP!!!! :)
I'm thinking of an N letter word.
heh.
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.)
I'm thinking of an aleph-null letter word.
Aleph, huh? You fiend! Picking words in Hebrew! Okay, I guess "g'veret".
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)...
power: aleph null !!! Congratulations. power's turn...
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...
FADE.
0xfeed
Since this is a 16 *bit* word, you must count the bits that match, not the letters, which represent a rather artificial grouping of the bits.
Unix has paralysed my mind. ;)
DEAF.
No fair--you need to enter the words in binary, since, as srw said, this is a 16 ***BIT*** word! :) but anyway.... 1111101011011110 - 10 1111111011101101 - 14 1101111010101111 - 11 I was kind, and did the conversion myself, this time, but after this, all entries must be in binary notation... not that hard to convert, anyway... :)
Seems fair, power, but is it fair to say that your word has odd parity, and yet the first test word clearly has even parity and an even number of matches (10)? Parity argues that 10 is not correct. Please explain.
-3 (1111111111111101) - assuming you missed a bit and meant 11 for 0xfade.
It was my mistake, on the first one above--it actually has 9 matches. it's a bit tricky to count :)... the other two are right... 1111111111111101 - 14 looks like it's time for another hint... the hex representation of this EXTREMELY alphabetic looking word has only one vowel. Furthermore, at least on of the above guesses was very close, in either hex or bin...
Now we have a problem, power, as this game obviously inherited all of the rules from rcurl's first game, someone else must guess before I can guess again. It doesn't look like there are a lot of participants, though. :-)
....anywhere....
Perhaps letter match isn't dead, but only dormant. I think we should let it sleep for now.
My thought too. It's winter, when many things are dormant.
:)... oh well... maybe an Apple // junkie or two will wander in and have a guess.... tsty? kentn?... in the meantime....
I think we have a dormant game.
please lower # of letters.
I think they're tired of playing, Jonathan ... note especially that it had been almost 4 years since the last resp.
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