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To: gpowell who wrote (539)12/7/2000 4:55:02 PM
From: M. Frank GreiffensteinRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 24758
 
What is special about IBM is it’s an acronym for International Business Machines

The reasoning is circular, but I think you know that, LOL. If it will German, it would be KVK, "Komputer vill kill" <g>.

Yes, I think trigram has to be acceptable. But this is a subjective judgement. Is the criterion pronouceability? Does it need a vowel?

The 263-to-1 odds ration refers to the odds of choosing a subjectively defined "acceptable" combination from all possibilities, it does not refer to the probability of the specific HAL combo.

OK, now what are the odds of my stopping the beating of this dead horse? Pretty good about now!

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