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kiki lee
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The SF Chronicle has a word game where all the letters are scrambled up and you have to figure out what the word is. Imagine that a scrambled word is 5 characters long:
How many possible solutions are there?
What if we know which 5 letters are being used?
Develop an algorithm to solve the word.
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Re: Scrambled word
« Reply #1 on: Jul 1st, 2003, 2:20am » |
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It really depends on how many, and which 5 letter words there are.
qwrtp f.i. clearly isn't a word, and even many pronouncable sequences of letters may not be words. So that limits what can be scrambled into a puzzle.
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Re: Scrambled word
« Reply #2 on: May 25th, 2009, 10:10pm » |
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Depends upon the language!
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