sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman) (11/08/83)
In case anyone didn't figure out my earlier submission, all of the words listed had the property that their letters were in reverse alphabetical order (plus, they were at least 5 letters long). The longest forward-sorted words are ALMOST and BIOPSY. The longest words with no letter occurring more than once are - ambidextrous bluestocking exclusionary incomputable lexicography loudspeaking malnourished (the words 'vodkathumbscrewingly' and 'pubvexingfjordschmaltzy' don't seem to be in /usr/dict/words) More words begin with 's' than any other letter. The next most common initial letter is 'c', of all things. Hey, I think it's interesting... Steve Hayman watmath!watcgl!sahayman
stekas@houxy.UUCP (11/10/83)
How about aan even more interesting word puzzle?
Who can write the longest sentence which when converted
to ASCII coding yields a prime number?
Hint: Use a language like Polish which looks random to
begin with. Languages like Italian use to many
vowels and would yield much more easily factorable
sentences.
Jimrobison@eosp1.UUCP (11/11/83)
In reference to a note on The longest words in English in which no letter appears twice, which contained a list of 12-letter words, including: ambidextrous. The Random hoise dictionary lists: ambidextrously (14 letters) - Keremath, care of: Robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1 or: allegra!eosp1
lab@qubix.UUCP (Larry Bickford) (11/11/83)
Those are the longest you could think of without repeats?
Questionably (12, no repeats), your work is not done.
Pray, look harder:
uncopyrightable = 15, no repeats, and genuinely usable.
Larry Bickford,
{ihnp4,ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!qubix!lab
...!{amd70,ittvax}!qubix!lab