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- From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman)
- Subject: Re: SURWDKGO
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:04:15 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.150416.25974@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept
- References: <1992Nov16.165051.7278@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> <5857@osc.COM>
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- >What is the next letter in this sequence:
- >
- >ETIANMSURWDKGO
- >
- >There is a definite answer.
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- A definite answer?
-
- That is an interesting comment, for it would mean that the answer is NOT
- ambiguous. Or in other words, there is only one possible answer and no
- others exist. This seems doubtful, in the extreme. The above list corresponds
- to probably a few hundred not so common things, and a few common things.
- For example, it might be the initials of Kings, or one letter past the
- initials of a famous family heritage, or some relationship to the greek
- letter.
-
- Indeed, the above sequence of characters has an infinite number of answers
- if one will accept answers of any size. For example, the above list
- is equivalent to some sequence within PI, if we translate the digits
- into numbers appropriately.
-
- Therefore, since there are an infinite number of answers the problem must
- not be well defined.
-