From: gotoken@... (GOTO Kentaro) Date: 2000-12-30T08:57:13+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:8317] Re: speedup of anagram finder In message "[ruby-talk:8298] Re: speedup of anagram finder" on 00/12/30, "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" writes: >Glad you liked it. Listen, if it's a specific case of a Goedel number, could >we call it >the "Shultz integral invariant" of an ascii string? This may be my only >chance to be >an eponym. :0)) I'd like to call it "Shultz-Goedel-Abel index" beacuse anagram can be seen as equivalent class w.r.t. Abelization of word space. By this fact, you'll have also chance to be remembered with Abel and Goedel :-) Of caurse it owes Ruby, which has capacity to handle arbitrary large integers :-) :-) -- Gotoken