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(...) I hope you will not be too tough on her. She probably found the assignment and thought it sounded good and assigned it without taking the time to try it out herself (happens more at this time of year when teachers are getting swamped with (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Done. -JDF (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) zebrahides at 97 is the closest I came for a Z (...) Well someone mail me the words and I'll have Nik turn them all in along with Dan's perl 1 liner and no other comment.... :-) ++Lar (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just getting *over* 100 is quite easy, you just need words that have a number of late alpahabet letters. Since R, S, and T are common letters and are late in the alphabet you are all set. Like I said, ironically, "alphabet" itself is 99... so (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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My son had a similiar assignment (2nd or third grade - he's in fourth now), but it wasn't *exactly* 100. I don't remember the exact parameters of the assignment, but it wasn't something frustratingly difficult - finding exact 100 pt. words is going (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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Greetings: For the past few weeks I have been unable to open Brickbay from my machine. I'm using Netscape 4.7, and I've fiddled with my preferences every way that I know how. Is this possibly a configuration issue? Any advice would be appreciated! (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey John, LTNS. ;) (...) This model has the drive attached to the bottom of the case. So I guess I could stick another 6gb drive out of one of the others (probably one of the two I snagged memory from already) into the spot above the Zip. I'm (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hi Mike, Is the internal drive in the upper left bay or attached to the bottom of the case? most of the ones with IDE drives have them in the lower case position and the SCSI ones are in the upper left bay above the zip drive. you ought to be (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well, we're surplussing a bunch of older G3's (266 AV-capable towers and 300 desktop models) and I'm bringing one home to fiddle with. I figured the 300 would be better to mess with, although I'm not so sure after seeing how little internal (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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You can get Country style "FOO" stickers from (URL) got one on my car. KL (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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