Re:I Hate the Letter F
by amenhotep on Saturday October 19, 2024 @07:13AM
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I think that's cheating. 70 is just F with a different hat on.
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Re:I Hate the Letter F
by reikonomusha on Saturday October 19, 2024 @02:37PM
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Would it be better for you if we took the Nth symbol in alphabetical order from the list of 978 standard symbols? You could do that.
How about searching for all symbols with the letters DEMACRO that are 8 letters long? We could do that too.
The technique works so long as you can uniquely determine the symbol through some combination of standard Lisp functions that don't contain F. Lisp has a big library, so it's not tough.
"70" isn't a number that is associated to F in any common person's understanding, and the pronunciation of the number "70" in English has no objectionable F sounds, so I don't agree it's cheating. :)