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What do these words have in common?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Ok, so this is not Math-related but I did discover it in the book Fun With Mathematics. The book, by the way, which is out of print and only available used, is definitely worth a couple of bucks plus the shipping cost. So, what do the following words have in common? playgrounds dumbwaiters workmanship republicans sympathizer Yes, ...

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Male Nerd Sol

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Well, this post is not so “mathy.” It’s about anagrams, which are permutations of the letters of one or more words, and about a fun site to play with generating anagrams. If you take the letters of my name, Sol Lederman, and rearrange them one of the many possible phrases is ...

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