Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!mark From: mark@zinfandel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <1096@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 01:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1096 Posted: Fri Jul 1 01:19:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 20:10:17 EDT Lines: 31 #R:research:-35700:zinfandel:9300021:000:850 zinfandel!mark Jun 29 17:42:00 1983 Re: longest words whose letters are in order. More new results. Well, I missed a few 6-letter words earlier, but who cares about them with seven letter words around. Variation: How about the longest words whose letters are in reverse order? I found 5 7-letter ones: 2 had repeated letters and one of the strictly monotonic ones was a name, leaving 2 strictly monotonic 7-letter non-name words. Thanks to Berry Kercheval for this suggestion. Here they are, ROT13 (I should have done this to my previous submissions -- sorry, I'm a slow thinker). Words with their letters in reverse alphabetic order (7 letters): fcbatrq Gfbarpn jebatrq Non-strictly decreasing order (7 letters): fcvssrq gebbyvr Mark Wittenberg ...!decvax!sytek!zehntel!mark ...!ucbvax!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!mark ...!teklabs!zehntel!mark