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(...) This must be proof that linux is better than solaris. There's 20,000 more words in /usr/dict/words on my dedrat 6.x box, and 242 more of them score 100 points. The religous wars can end now. :) Still no x or z. Oddly enough, my dedrat 7.0 box (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) not going into a holy war, it's a mess cause I Wanted it to be :) the original form was 10 lines, and quite readable :) (...) keyboards kissers - not sure if 'kissers' is a word, but I think 'keyboards' should qualify... :) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Neither could I. This one's on sloaris, and I apologize for my mediocre coding style. It's still much more readable than that perl mess ever hoped to be, but probably took me longer. :) #include <stdio.h> int fd; FILE *fi; char buf[20]; int (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I couldn't help it... and it's my first attempt at a one liner :) perl -ne 'BEGIN{for('a'..'z')...f$t==100;' /usr/dict/linux.words comes out with 498 words out of 45402 in the file... pretty fast too :) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hm. Figuring the average letter is worth 13.5 points, this means that most words are going to be in the 7-8 letter range. That's probably reasonable for a third grader. I suppose it's a way to get in a heck of a lot of boring arithmetic (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It certainly takes a lot of trial and error to come up with a word which sums to 100 exactly. So to find one word at 100 starting with each letter from the alphabet could easily take a few days if you're not using any computer tools. The (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Look for patterns or workarounds. Whenever something comes along that, like this, appears way too hard to be reasonable, I just assume it's a trick question. Which way the smoke blows depends on where the survivors were buried.(1) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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My son came home with a homework assignment today that I think is a bit tough. Here it is If you assign the letters of the alphabet numeric values with 1 == a and 26 == z, find a word starting with each letter that sums to exactly 100. Or at least (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, if you have access to the server logs, it's just a matter of counting the lines that requested the file counted. if you don't have access, you'll have to write a small CGI that will serve the file, after incementing a counter. HTH -- Dan (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm not even sure of the precise terminology to use, but I'm looking for something to register the number of times a file is downloaded. I've seen such things online at a number of places, but can anyone advise me where I might acquire one? Thanks a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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