jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) (05/04/85)
>> Here's a slight improvement on the first: >> ambuscade fighting jackal menopause quarks turvy waxy zebra >> ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ >> which does it in 8. I got this one using egrep on /usr/dict/words, >> and believe it is optimal. >> >> David Albert > >Don't look now, but you can replace the last four words by > > queerest purview oxygenize > ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ >Col. G. L. Sicherman Several of the words can now be shortened, if we want to optimize it further. "Afghani" is shorter than "fighting" for fghi, and "maintop" beats "menopause". I didn't keep track of the record for reverse order. Here's a sample with eight words: zymotoxic waverous tsar equipotent milk jinshang foredescribe a ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ Love that web2. -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa