From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T23:39:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Word Loop (#149)

On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:55 AM, Alex Shulgin wrote:

> On Dec 12, 12:10 am, Alex Shulgin <alex.shul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 10:45 pm, Ruby Quiz <ja...@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a fun little challenge from the Educational Computing  
>>> Organization of
>>> Ontario.
>
> Yeah, and I've finally found one which can form a loop with some empty
> space in it. :-)
>
> Antidisestablishmentarianism:
>
> ..........nemh..
> ..........t..s..
> antidisestablism
> ..........rian..

Eric's code makes some fun loops with that word:

$ ruby word_loop.rb Antidisestablishmentarianism
Number of overlaps: 5
========================================
  ant
ianism
r  d
abli
tses
nemh
========================================
    sm
antidish
    n lem
    a bse
    iratn
========================================
    m
    s
antidish
    n lem
    a bse
    iratn
========================================
  ant
ianis
r  dm
abli
tses
nemh
========================================
   an
    t
ianis
r  dm
abli
tses
nemh
========================================
   an
    t
ianism
r  d
abli
tses
nemh
========================================

James Edward Gray II