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Old 12-07-2009, 08:57 AM   #451
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Total matching book titles found: 1
Book titles with 11 characters..: 189
Total number of books processed.: 3910

Total matching book titles found: 1
Book titles with 11 characters..: 189
Total number of books processed.: 29231

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Old 12-07-2009, 08:57 AM   #452
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I can't even begin to guess at how you got these numbers!
Easy:
  1. Find a list of "well-known" books
  2. Write a script that does the following:
    1. Counts number of books (titles)
    2. Counts number of titles that contain exactly 11 characters
    3. Eliminate any titles that do not match the known letters
    4. Count and print out the possible titles
  3. Run the script using your list and the letters currently known!
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Old 12-07-2009, 09:01 AM   #453
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You must have found a longer list of well-known books than I did.
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Old 12-07-2009, 09:43 AM   #454
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Found it. One question: Are the letters supposed to be case sensitive?
No. 1 letter is in lower case so it wouldn't be confused with other letters.

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Old 12-07-2009, 10:10 AM   #455
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Easy:
  1. Find a list of "well-known" books
  2. Write a script that does the following:
    1. Counts number of books (titles)
    2. Counts number of titles that contain exactly 11 characters
    3. Eliminate any titles that do not match the known letters
    4. Count and print out the possible titles
  3. Run the script using your list and the letters currently known!
Oh yeah - Easy!
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:12 AM   #456
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What better place to hide a letter than in some old book upload? Of course, we don't want it to be so easy as extracting all images an and checking them only, so it better be done with SVG or just CSS... or put it in an image-based PDF, or... DRM it
excellent idea. good thing we still have a few days left to use it.

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Old 12-07-2009, 10:13 AM   #457
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You must have found a longer list of well-known books than I did.
Actually, I'm sure you would have been ok with a much, much smaller list if my current guess proves true

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And now thanks to you I'm quite sure it will
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:16 AM   #458
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No. 1 letter is in lower case so it wouldn't be confused with other letters.

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Hang on a second.... You're trying to make things clear to us, remove possible ambiguities and avoid mis-understandings and confusions.

Are the Clue department and Letter Representation department run by different people then?
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:18 AM   #459
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Hang on a second.... You're trying to make things clear to us, remove possible ambiguities and avoid mis-understandings and confusions.
Just keep one thing in mind...

Everything I say is a lie.

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Old 12-07-2009, 10:19 AM   #460
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Just keep one thing in mind...

Everything I say is a lie.

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that's not true.
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:21 AM   #461
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Everything I say is a lie.

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Wait a minute... If you lie about everything. Then the above is a lie, hence all you say is the truth!

My brain hurts...
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:24 AM   #462
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Actually, I'm sure you would have been ok with a much, much smaller list if my current guess proves true
YES, in fact I also had a list of 174 classic books and it comes up with the same answer!
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:39 AM   #463
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Oh yeah - Easy!
Of course, only a 92 line AWK script. Piece of cake!
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:42 AM   #464
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YES, in fact I also had a list of 174 classic books and it comes up with the same answer!
If the answer is what I suspect I think we will have lots of correct replies.
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Old 12-07-2009, 10:43 AM   #465
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I found it with some itty bitty help from a friend - don't think I could have found the right direction on my own. Thanks, friend

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