On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:44:07PM -0400, John Francis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:33:06PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > > > What is the biggest crisis facing the computer industry today? > > > > There are only 19683 TLAs. > > Shoddy counting. > > Only 17576 of those are true TLAs. > > If you want to count OLAs and inferior TLAs you can get up to 18278, > but there's no way to get to 19683 wothout counting such obviously > incorrect varieties as "A B" (and " "), and other malformations.
The reason I'm a programmer is that I can only count to 1. For some inexplicable reason I keep thinking that there are 27 letters in the alphabet. Maybe I *really* want thorn to be brought back into common usage. So, the number I came up with was 27^3 instead of 26^3. Math is easy, arithmatic is hard. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
