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  • Carroll's "improved" Doublets: allowing permutations

    Nov 7, 2022 programming julia

    Carroll originally invented his Doublets in 1877, they were published in "Vanity Fair" (the magazine, not the Thackeray novel) in 1879. Some years later, in an 1892 letter, Carroll added another rule: that permutations were allowed. This allows very neat chains such as: roses, noses, notes, steno, stent, …

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  • Super Doublets: more word ladders with Julia

    Nov 5, 2022 programming julia

    Apparently there's a version of Doublets (see previous post) which allows you to add or delete a letter each turn. Thus we can go from WHEAT to BREAD as WHEAT, HEAT, HEAD, READ, BREAD which is shorter than the ladder given in that previous post. However, we can easily adjust the material from that post to implement …

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  • Word ladders with Julia

    Nov 3, 2022 programming julia

    Lewis Carroll's game of Doublets Such a long time since my last post! Well, that's the working life for you. Anyway, recently I was reading about Lewis Carroll - always one of my favourite people - and was reminded of his word game "Doublets" in which one word is turned into another by changing one letter at …

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  • Speeds of Julia and Python

    Dec 19, 2019 programming python julia

    Introduction Python is of course one of the world's currently most popular languages, and there are plenty of statistics to show it. Of all languages in current use, Python is one of the oldest (in the very quick time-scale of programming languages) dating from 1990 - only C and its variants are older. However, it …

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