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Re:The Elegance of Deflate by jamesfisher on Monday August 22, 2016 @11:16AM (#12336895)
> This paragraph has five-hundred and sixty-one lower-case letters in

It must have taken some trial-and-error to make this sentence correct, since the number itself adds some letters.

Re:The Elegance of Deflate by syntheticnature on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:35PM (#12337939)
Interestingly, it can work in-place if you change it to "This paragraph has five-hundred and sixty-three lower-case letters in"
Re:The Elegance of Deflate by to3m on Monday August 22, 2016 @12:05PM (#12337259)
Pick a value that's close enough, and tweak everything else until it's true :) This post has one hundred and thirty-two chars in it.
Re:The Elegance of Deflate by vintermann on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:04AM (#12342734)
This, ten