Re: Request for sentences which inventory each other

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:33:15 -0400 (EDT), "Arthur J. O'Dwyer"
<ajo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Bob Jordan wrote:
>> "Juuitchan" <juuitchan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> "The sentence on my wife Patricia's shirt contains exactly [number]
>>> letters: [number] a's, [number] b's, ..."
>>>
>>> "The sentence on my husband David's shirt contains exactly [number]
>>> letters: [number] a's, [number] b's, ..."
>>
>> An interesting challenge. I have solved the more basic problem using
>> excel last year but could extend it to this problem
>
> I suspect the problem is impossible, but I have no idea how to prove it
>within the lifetime of the Universe. Anyway, here's a quick hack I wrote
>in C to find this kind of pangram by "Robinsonizing." It doesn't do
>non-pangrams yet, and I haven't actually tested the file input function,
>but the OP might want to play around with it a little.
>
>http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ajo/disseminate/pangram.c
>
>-Arthur

I think the easiest way to solve this sort of puzzle is,
if you're not married, fill out everything except your wife's
name first, and marry a woman whose name makes the numbers match.
If you're already married, fill out everything except the name on your
wife's shirt, and then change your own name to make the numbers match!

George
.

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