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From: mike@turing.unm.edu.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
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Subject: Re: Large programs
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 06:45:01 EDT
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In article <6524@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
~To take a simple example, not long ago in net.puzzles there were some
~questions such as:  What is the longest word containing letters in
~alphabetical order?  It is most unlikely that ANY "word processing"
~package design would have anticipated such questions; however, it was
~quite easy to answer such questions by imaginative combinations of
~standard UNIX tools.

This principle can be often forgotten.  There was also the following
puzzle:  Which prime comes first in an alphabetical list?

A fairly good answer is arrived at with the command

 primes 2 | head 1000000000 | number | sort | head





					Michael I. Bushnell
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					mike@turing.unm.edu
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