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Co-descriptive strings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Lee Sallows  and
Victor L. Eijkhout
Lee Sallows
Affiliation:
Psychology Lab., University of Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Victor L. Eijkhout
Affiliation:
Psychology Lab., University of Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, Postbus 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Extract

What sentence in this Mathematical Gazette contains seven a’s, four c’s, thirty-two e’s, eight f’s, five g’s, ten h’s, twelve i’s, three l’s, three m’s, fifteen n’s, eight o’s, one q, seven r’s, twenty-seven s’s, twenty-five t’s, four u’s, eight v’s, seven w’s, four y’s & two z’s?

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 70 , Issue 451 , March 1986 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1986

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