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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: infinitesimal bees (Really alphabet transform) ** SPOILER **
Message-ID: <1109@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 12:44:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 12:44:19 1985
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References: <10852@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1628@uwmacc.UUCP> <2701@brl-tgr.ARPA> <10886@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10887@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <10886@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> c160-3ay@ucbzooey.UUCP (The Grinch) writes:
>Alright then, what common english word is invariant under the alphabet
>transformation of A-Z, B-Y, C-X, etc.?

Obviously no word can transform into itself, because then every letter in
it would have to transform into itself, and no letter does. However,

                       WIZARD
transforms into

                       DRAZIW

which is its own reversal.
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Kenneth Arromdee
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