Re: Foo Bar
Re: Foo Bar
- Subject: Re: Foo Bar
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:28:18 -0500 (CDT)
Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
> FUBAR was a well known navy acronym referring
> to telegraphy garbled beyond all recognition.
Not only are you a mathematician, you are a diplomat as well.
In my military (Air Force) family growing up, the 'F' in FUBAR didn't mean
garbled!
As a kiddy-proof basis for a game of FUBAR MasterMind, PHP would say that
the Levenshtein distance from "The Word"...
to garbled = 7
to fudge = 3
to book = 3
to buck = 1
to funk = 1
<?php
# FUBAR Master Mind
# Try to score a zero :)
#
$TheWord = "YOURGUESSHERE";
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","garbled");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","fudge");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","book");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","buck");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","funk");
?>
Okay. Hey, Doug. Here's one for you, maybe to go along with your 'There
are 10 kinds of people...' line.
This occurred to me while reading April's SciAm this afternoon.
If you thought this was funny:
A: "Hey, what's new?"
B: E over h.
then you may like this one:
When I did something well, my mother would always said "(10 ^ -18)boy!"
So, waddya think? That joke is going places, my friends. You wait.
--
Gary
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