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Re: What's a word?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 29, 2004
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Christian Cuvier wrote:
> 
> Using rules 2 and 6, any subword of a word is a word as long as it satisfies 
> rules 3-5.
> 
> Then, in the all-letter string:
> 
> "rthiusoshysegfergzpzbhoimj"
> 
> (randomly keyboard-generated) the following are words:
> 
> rthiusoshysegfergzpz
> thiusoshysegfergzpzb
> hiusoshysegfergzpzbh
> 
> etc, as well as any 1-19 character substrings of them.

Thank you. I can now understand how one might choose to see this rule
as ambiguous. I will reword it to clarify.

> And rolling back on the recent addition in rule 1, which doesn't seem quite 
> natural (see my previous post).

That rule won't being changed anytime soon. You'll just have to live with
it as it stands - unnatural or otherwise. I want this to be a Euphoria
contest, so solving it using another language seems unnatural to me.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia