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Re: Two bits for your thoughts

by Elgon (Curate)
on Mar 02, 2004 at 20:38 UTC ( [id://333363]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Two bits for your thoughts

L~R,

Question below, hidden to avoid spoiling the problem for others...

That was a fun riddle - I didn't realise that there were no e's in it, although I did get the other two.

Did you get the inspiration from "La Disparition" by George Perec? (It was a book written in French which didn't contain a single letter "e". It was translated into English by Gilbert Adair under the title of "The Void".)

Elgon

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Re: Re: Two bits for your thoughts
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Mar 02, 2004 at 20:46 UTC
    Elgon,
    I had heard about the novel a long time ago, but no. I love brain teasers and logic puzzles and found this some time ago as well. It was when I was correcting a newbie in Freenet's #perl about when certain things were allowed to be omitted that I got the inspiration. I then constructed my version.

    Cheers - L~R

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