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Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> 1 (and therefore 'a') is also a factor of 1 million and may provide other 
> valid words?
>
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>> From: Mike Day
>> Sent: Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:15
>>
>> Joey's solution is so very quick and satisfying that this is hardly
>> worth remarking,  but I will anyway!
>>
>> A 1 million-dollar word may only contain letters whose values are
>> factors of 1 million, namely
>>   2 4 5 8 10 16 20 & 25
>> so words containing letters other than
>>    b d e h j p t y
>> may be excluded immediately.
>>
>> My wordlist with ~ 173000 words has only 112 "valid" words,
>> including "typey".
>>
>> M
>>
>> Joey K Tuttle wrote:
>>     
>>> I don't consider j to be a typey language... Pretty specialized
>>>       
>> lexicon!
>>     
>>>     words {~ I. 1e6 = ; */ &.> ' abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'&i.&.>
>>> words =. <;._2 ] 1!:1<'itawords.txt'
>>> +-----+
>>> |typey|
>>> +-----+
>>>
>>>
>>> At 21:33  -0700 2010/06/15, Roger Hui wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>  >From the Journal of Recreational Mathematics,
>>>> Volume 27, Number 2, 1995.
>>>>
>>>> Map a to $1, b to $2, ... z to $26.  The value of
>>>> a word is the product of the values of its letters.
>>>> Find a million dollar word.
>>>>
>>>> If you need a lexicon, there is one available at
>>>>
>>>>         
>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Puzzles/Palindromic%20Pangram?action=Att
>> achFile&do=get&target=itawords.txt
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