Self-description Sentence. (absolutely Amazing)

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This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three

c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's,

twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's,

thirteen o's, three p's, one q, fourteen r's, twenty-nine s's,

twenty-four t's, five u's, six v's, seven w's, four x's, five

y's, and one z.

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#51642

what's the point of this?

#51682

hahaha - i dont get it :blink:

#51687

its a pangram... count the number of instances of each letter and they're supposed to be the same as what it says... Self Reference which is a weird biggley bug in logic.

ie. (for kidda) contains six a's=countem theres 6. there are many variations of these the hard part is you change the instances of one letter and it changes the instances of others ie. using the expression "six a's" adds 1 i to the list while the expression "two a's" does not.

weird.. computer generated, takes the fun(work out of it). I don't know if they were ever funny, but they are kindof interesting

i'd be interested in seeing a plot of the pangram class, there is so much inter-referencing going on that it'd be a neat pattern, maybe i'll do a hunt.

any douglas hofstadter fans out there?

can't remember the name of them, but there are sentences that read the same forwards or backwards and some of them are really neat..

#51706

aha! :blink:

#51708

race car

#51727

self-descriptive words are called "autological."

and the words that are read the same forward and backward are called palindromes.

pretty neat pangram there.

#51728

I'm still a bit confused but I'm starting to get ya.......hmm intresting

#51729

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!!!!!!

yeah, that was bothering me... that's an infamous palindrome and i had to search to find it. Damn brain :rant: oh yeah, and as of last year the worlds longest palindrome was over 15000 words long!

haha, but it's generated by a comp, probably completely meaningless. On a prog(no offense intended) could claim this was a meaningfull record, hehe.

oh yeah, your DNA is a palindrome.(its actually a variation on a palindrome-a crab canon) weird eh!?!

#51733

Wow I did not realize that, Did anyone else realize that?

#51755

Originally posted by Sharpie30K@Aug 29 2003, 08:54 PM

what's the point of this?

the sentence describes itself! ;)

#51886