Pickett
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Aww...bobpi beat me by about 5 seconds...nicely done
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Now, maybe I can get some work done...Great puzzle...very difficult...
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Don't know if it's what you were thinking, but anagrams...you simply take a word and alphabetize the letters, then look it up in this dictionary and find all the other words with the same alphabetized list. and voila you have all of the anagrams for a given word.
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So, there is actually a notation that isn't as well known with Roman Numerals. The Romans would typically write out all of the M's that were needed to do higher order numbers, however, when following the rules that were stated above, and when getting to VERY high numbers they actually had a notation that they used. 1000=M 2000=MM 3000=MMM Now, you actually put a bar over the numbers, to represent multiplication by 1,000: 4000 is actually written as: __ IV So, then 5000: _ V 5150: _ VCL And 100,000: _ C and 1,000,000: _ M And to go higher than that, you simply put 2 bars over the numbers to represent multiplying by 1,000,000. 1,000,000,000 would then be: = M So, to represent their 6000 men, would be __ VI or if they weren't being lazy and decided to disregard their own rules: MMMMMM Hope this helps.
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You asked me to do it: Sorry for anyone that has spent a lot of time on trying to solve this manually...but this only took about 3 minutes to write the code for and get the answer :c) Probably not the most efficient code in the world, but I went with the quick and dirty method...here's the code (Java) in case you are wondering:
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oh boy...this thread will be locked very shortly, I assume...classic Honestants/Swindlecants problem that has been posted on this site more than any other riddle...it's a great one, but been done before...
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Excellent riddle...I really enjoy these that you write. Very well done.
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