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To: gpowell who wrote (536)	12/7/2000 3:54:06 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

CVK would never be used for a computer name. KKK, ASS You have framed the problem differently. I said combination without replacement. This means a letter cannot appear twice. Otherwise, the total sample space is much larger than 15,600 unique combinations. It would be 26 to the third power. My treatment of the problem takes care of most the objectionable terms. And why wouldn't a computer be called CVK? Computer Version Kappa? What is so special about IBM as a letter combination? I think the most effective counterargument you could make is to restrict three letter groups to consonant-vowel-consonant combinations. The space size here would be 21 X 5 X 20 or 2,100. Now, that's trigrams with a vowel in the middle and consonants at the end, it would not include "IBM" but it would include HAL. To get the total universe of trigrams in any order with the constraint that 2 must be consonants and one a vowel, it would be 3 X (21 X 5 X 20). Doc Stone