Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa 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 Article-I.D.: jhunix.1109 Posted: Wed Nov 6 12:44:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:00:58 EST References: <10852@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1628@uwmacc.UUCP> <2701@brl-tgr.ARPA> <10886@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10887@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 22 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa