From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T13:47:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Panagrams (#86)


On Jul 7, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Simon Kr�ger wrote:

> Mat Schaffer wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Simon Kr�ger wrote:
>>
>> Just for the sake of nitpicking, seems like the following ending  
>> would
>> be more appropriate:
>> "...three x's, four y's and one z."
>
> more like this?
>
> This is a pangram from simon, it contains six a's, one b, two c's, two
> d's, thirty e's, eight f's, three g's, seven h's, fifteen i's, one j,
> one k, one l, four m's, twenty-four n's, sixteen o's, two p's, one q,
> nine r's, twenty-nine s's, twenty-one t's, three u's, five v's, seven
> w's, three x's, five y's and one z
> Time: 6.172s
>
>> Now if only I could figure out how to actually generate a working
>> sentence.... :(
>> -Mat
>
> well, I'm not sure if it is possible for every start of a sentence,
> perhaps try another. (any thoughts from the mathematicians out there?)

I think the method by which you get there plays a big part too.  I  
ran my current version for about 15 minutes yielding no correct  
result.  And my preamble is taken from the original links sent to the  
list as description.

Feels like it would be cheating to read and mimic the perl  
implementation on the site.

-Mat