HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
Subject: Rules question: backgammoning
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:57:10 GMT
Keywords: backgammon,rules


	I have a rules question that Hoyle's is unclear about: if your
opponent has borne off some of his men, and if you then proceed to bear
off all of your own men, and he still has a man on the bar or in your
home table, is it a backgammon?

---
John Gordon                        My incredibly witty saying has been 
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu         Politically Corrected into oblivion.
From: hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov (Larry Hunter)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Re: Neural net
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:52:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: work.HUNTER.92Nov16155200
Organization: National Library of Medicine


Mark Diamond asks:

  Does anyone know the name of the IBM researcher who was said to have been
  working on a neural-net to play backgammon?  Does anyone know where the
  research was written up??

His name is Gerald (Gerry) Tesauro.  Here are some citations of his work:

G. Tesauro, "Temporal Difference Learning of Backgammon Strategy," Proceedings
of the Ninth International Workshop on Machine Learning, 1992, pp. 451-457.
Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA.

G. Tesauro, "Neurogammon: a Neural Network Backgammon Program." International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks Proceedings III, pp. 33-39 (1990)

G. Tesauro & T. Sejnowski, "A Parallel Network that Learns to Play Backgammon."
Artificial Intelligence 39:357-390 (1989).

G. Tesauro, "Connectionist Learning of Expert Preferences by Comparison
Training," in D. Touretzky (ed) Advances in Neural Information Processing 1,
pp. 99-106.  Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA. (1989)

According to the first citation, he can be reached at:

Gerald Tesauro
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
PO Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
tesauro@watson.ibm.com

Please remember to be considerate when you send a stranger email....

Larry

--
Lawrence Hunter, PhD.
National Library of Medicine
Bldg. 38A, MS-54
Bethesda. MD 20894 USA
tel: +1 (301) 496-9300
fax: +1 (301) 496-0673 
internet: hunter@nlm.nih.gov
encryption: PGP 2.0 public key via "finger hunter@work.nlm.nih.gov"
From: erb@WORLD.STD.COM ("", ed r baker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Re: Backgammon group
Date: 15 Nov 92 07:05:42 GMT
Reply-To: "Backgammon strategy" <BKGAMMON@indycms.iupui.edu>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <BKGAMMON%92111309465734@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU> you write:
>i would like to join the backgammon group.  my name is Donald Warkentin.  my ad
>dress is Warkenti@ukcc.uky.edu.  Thank you.
>
>//Don Warkentin

I don't know what the backgammon group is, but if you are on the Internet then
you can play backgammon by using the following Unix command:

     telnet 134.130.130.46 4321

There are lots of players there.

-Ed
From: WARKENTI@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Donald Warkentin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Trying for double sixes
Date: 14 Nov 92 19:28:58 GMT
Reply-To: "Backgammon strategy" <BKGAMMON@indycms.iupui.edu>

There are a couple of additional factors to consider when trying for double six
es.  It may be true that if the dice are thrown high, they will be weighted by
the heavier sides, but they also bounce more the higher that they are thrown.
Therefore the type of surface on which they will land should be taken into acco
unt.  There may be an optimal height since the additional bounce may offset the
 advantage gained by giving more time for the heavier side to turn down.  Also
the throw should be straight to reduce spinning of the dice as much as possible
.  An obvious point is that dice with larger holes give a greater six bias.  Ge
nerally these biases are very tiny.


 //Don Warkentin
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: lum@leland.Stanford.EDU (Benjamin Lai)
Subject: Re: LA gammon
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:49:25 GMT

In article <22916@venera.isi.edu> knight@isi.edu (Kevin Knight) writes:
>
>Greetings, I just moved from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles recently.
>Can anyone tell me the story on organized backgammon in LA?
>(Regular meetings, if any, tournaments, places and times, etc.)
>Thanks in advance!  My email address is knight@isi.edu.
>
>	Kevin

Kevin,

One of best sources of which I know for the information that you
requested in your posting, above, is the semi-legendary Cavendish West 
in Hollywood, which is the most famous site/sight in at least
Southern California for loose backgammon games --i.e., "action" in
the relevant argot-- and backgammon tourneys; the telephone number
there is, I believe, 818-901-0464.  


Generally, I strongly encourage those wishing to learn about backgammon
tourneys wordlwide to invest in a subscription to at least one of
the following two publications:

NAME OF PUBLICATION      SUBSCRIPTION          ADDRESS             TEL #
                             PAYEE    
Flint Area BackgammoNews Carol Joy Cole   3003 Ridgecliffe Drive  313-232-9731
(monthly, $15/year,                       Flint, MI 48532         (FAXes, too)
$25/year overseas,                        USA                  
$300 lifetime)

The Backgammon Calendar  The Gammon Press P.O. Box 294            617-641-2091
(monthly, $20/year,                       Arlington, MA 02174
$35/year overseas air)                    USA

The relative advantages of BackgammoNews are, first, it is slightly
to much less expensive, depending on your subscription term thereto;
and second, each issue contains much backgammon information other than
listings and results of backgammon tourneys -- e.g., articles on
backgammon theory, several problem positions, and an impressive list
of bg books, bg equipment, bg software, and other bg paraphernalia.

The relative advantage of the Calendar is that each issue contains
much more detailed information concerning backgammon tourneys than the
corresponding issue of BackgammoNews:  First, *complete* details of
all upcoming major bg events -- including divisions and fee
structures, hotel information, and travel tips; and second,
information on bg clubs and the scheduling of regular local bg
tourneys.   

So, take your pick:  To paraphrase Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry,
the question you have to ask yourself, prospective subscriber, is "Do
you prefer more general or more specific information?"; and, by the
way, "both" is a reasonable answer in this case.


Informatively yours,

-- JCB
From: magnusp@groucho.csd.uu.se (Magnus Petersson)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Re: Backgammon server on telnet Thanks Howard
Date: 21 Nov 1992 12:37:00 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: groucho.csd.uu.se

Would someone be so kind to tell me the address of this server!?
I would also like to know if there is any X-interface to backgammon
programs available on UNIX systems?

Thanks in advance,

Magnus
-- 
Magnus Petersson			magnusp@csd.uu.se
Computing Science Department 
Uppsala University, Sweden
From: joe@oilean.islandsw.com (Joe McGuckin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Looking for books on Backgammon
Date: 21 Nov 92 09:35:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Island Software

Got any suggestions?  Got any for sale?
My local bookstores don't seem to have
ANY books on backgammon.

-joe

-- 

Joe McGuckin             joe@islandsw.com
Island Software    	 oilean!joe@sgi.com
(415) 969-5453
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: marvin@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Schneider)
Subject: X11 Backgammon (was: Re: Neural net)
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:26:58 GMT

grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

>Coming Soon:  X11 backgammon

>The user interface is almost finished, and it's way cool -- I've
>created a backgammon-board widget, so you can include a backgammon
>board with movable pieces in any X application!  (Don't ask me why you
>would want to.)

I won't ask, but I'll tell you what I'd like to use it for:
What about some X11 application that connects to my backgammon server
and has a nice display? A friend of mine already started working on
such a program, but hasn't reached the X11 part of the program yet. Maybe
this widget helps to make it available sooner. 

>I've hacked up the BSD backgammon program to use as the engine, so not
>only are the graphics keen, you win almost every game!

Not only would the graphics be keen, you could also learn by losing
against other players.

>--
>Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  If I felt any more

Andreas

-- 
Email: marvin@rog.rwth-aachen.de
       marvin@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Mail: Andreas Schneider, Kapuzinergraben 8, 5100 Aachen, Germany
Phone: +49-241-35562
From: WARKENTI@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Donald Warkentin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Backgammon at telnet 134.130.130.46 4321
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:25:41 GMT
Reply-To: "Backgammon strategy" <BKGAMMON@indycms.iupui.edu>

Thanks for sending me the telnet address for playing backgammon.  I tried it an
d was able to play backgammon.  I have tried again several times, but the messa
ge said that the foreign host did not respond and I was unable to connect to pl
ay backgammon.  Does anyone know what the problem is?  Am I doing something wro
ng?  Thanks.

            //Don Warkentin
From: ding@MATH.BERKELEY.EDU ("", Howard Ding)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: Re: Backgammon at telnet 134.130.130.46 4321
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:22:25 GMT
Reply-To: "Backgammon strategy" <BKGAMMON@indycms.iupui.edu>
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.

In article <BKGAMMON%92111817355581@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU> you write:
>Thanks for sending me the telnet address for playing backgammon.  I tried it an
>d was able to play backgammon.  I have tried again several times, but the messa
>ge said that the foreign host did not respond and I was unable to connect to pl
>ay backgammon.  Does anyone know what the problem is?  Am I doing something wro
>ng?  Thanks.
>
>            //Don Warkentin
Just keep trying.  Sometimes the server is down.  Sometime there is
a network problem somewhere along the line that will keep you from
connecting (bear in mind that the server is in Germany).  This
server is actually fairly reliable and working most of the times that
I try to log onto it.

Howard Ding
ding@math.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: hansen@deci.cs.umn.edu (David M. Hansen)
Subject: The Doubling Cube
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:36:05 GMT

The following was taken without permission from "How to Play Backgammon" by
Arman Ratip, 1977, Spring Books.  The book itself is a small (about 60 pages,
with LOTS of illustrations, including a move-by-move analysis of a complete
game) introduction for the beginner who knows _nothing_ about backgammon
(my condition when I purchased the book 14 years ago...). 

"The idea of doubling is a very recent addition to the game of backgammon.
Introduced as recently as the 1920's, doubling is the method by which stakes 
can be raised while play is in progress.  Players in Western Europe and North
America often argue that doubling has brought action and excitement to the 
modern game.  And certainly it's this increased emphasis on gambling which has
stimulated the recent boom in backgammon.  However, I prefer the traditional
method of gambling simply on the outcome of a game or match.  Today, under the 
rules of doubling, a game must be abandoned if a player rejects a double.
But under the original rules each contest had to be played right through to
the end.  To do otherwise seems to me to do violence to the very nature of the 
game.  Backgammon is a contest in which fortunes can be reversed even when the 
issue seems certain.  Just one throw of the dice can change the whole course 
of the game.  The closing stages of a backgammon game are always the most
exciting and to stop short of the end is, for me, no way to play at all."

Interesting viewpoint, I think...

					-=Dave
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: ledug00@DMI.USherb.CA (GABRIEL LEDUC)
Subject: code for ibm ms-dos
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:21:56 GMT

	Hello everyone.
		I would like to know an ftp site with the
source code for backgammon.

	Thanx in advance
	Gab is the name
	please Email at ledug00@tohi.dmi.usherb.ca
From: migeon@cc.ec-lyon.fr (Migeon Arnaud)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: (none)
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:25:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: mailimai.199211191522.AA28924
Reply-To: migeon@cc.ec-lyon.fr

salut, rEponse?
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: chwelos@explorer.dgp (Greg Chwelos)
Subject: Re: Looking for books on Backgammon
Distribution: usa
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:10:08 GMT

I like Magriel:
Magriel, Paul (1973).  _Backgammon_.  New York: Quadrangle/The New York
Times Book Co.

I believe it's well out of print.  Look for it used.  It's very meatty--
lots of good coverage of subtle strategic points.

greg
From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: NetGammon says goodbye
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:53:28 EST

Due to the lack of interest in my server, NetGammon is officialy being
mothballed. If you are interested in the source code, I will be happy
to send you a copy.

Regards,

Garrett


Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Neural net
Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:28:59 GMT

Regarding the work on neural networks playing backgammon:

: 
: According to the first citation, he can be reached at:
: 
: Gerald Tesauro
: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
: PO Box 704
: Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
: tesauro@watson.ibm.com
: 

Since my site gets news via a dial-up connection, I assume many people
saw this a day or two before I did, and may have contacted Mr.
Tesauro.  If anybody does contact Mr.  Tesauro regarding his
backgammon program, could they please post what they find out?  I'm
sure that the poor guy doesn't need to spend the next week answering
the same e-mail requests over and over again.


Coming Soon:  X11 backgammon

The user interface is almost finished, and it's way cool -- I've
created a backgammon-board widget, so you can include a backgammon
board with movable pieces in any X application!  (Don't ask me why you
would want to.)

I've hacked up the BSD backgammon program to use as the engine, so not
only are the graphics keen, you win almost every game!

--
Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  If I felt any more
Rosemount Inc.                                |SOPHISTICATED I would DIE of
                                              |EMBARRASSMENT!
grante@aquarius.rosemount.com                 |
From: WARKENTI@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Donald Warkentin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: backgammon server on telnet 134.130.130.46 4321
Date: 24 Nov 92 01:52:13 GMT
Reply-To: "Backgammon strategy" <BKGAMMON@indycms.iupui.edu>

The backgammon server on telnet address is 134.130.130.46 4321.  I have tried i
t a couple more times, and had some great games.  The computer crashed and it w
as down for two days.  That explained why I was not able to get on it once.  It
 has been working great since then.  Thanks again Howard.

                                                         Don Warkentin
From: knight@isi.edu (Kevin Knight)
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
Subject: LA gammon
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:44:30 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute


Greetings, I just moved from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles recently.
Can anyone tell me the story on organized backgammon in LA?
(Regular meetings, if any, tournaments, places and times, etc.)
Thanks in advance!  My email address is knight@isi.edu.

	Kevin
From: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen)
Subject: Re: THE CANADIAN FLAG
Originator: clamen@BYRON.SP.CS.CMU.EDU
Reply-To: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
	<BxIsvB.4Bn@cs.dal.ca> <1992Nov17.032356.14793@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:06:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.032356.14793@cs.wisc.edu> gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:

   I know that the points on the maple leaf represent the provinces
   and territories, but I counted 12 provinces & territories and only
   11 points.  Is this right, or did I miscount?  Is Quebec the stem? :)

In Boy Scouts they taught me that 10 Provinces + Territories = 11.  I
suspect, though, that the number of points has no numerological
significance.  I guess we'll find out if Quebec some day leaves or one
of the (soon to be) three territories (most probably Yukon) becomes a
province.

--
Stewart M. Clamen			Internet:    clamen@cs.cmu.edu
School of Computer Science		UUCP: 	     uunet!"clamen@cs.cmu.edu"
Carnegie Mellon University		Phone: 	     +1 412 268 2145
5000 Forbes Avenue			Fax:	     +1 412 681 5739
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: cvadsavi@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Carl R. Knecht)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz Part II
Date: 22 Nov 92 02:39:00 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov20.113733.4161@memstvx1.memst.edu>, mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes...
>Movie Quote Quiz Part II
> 
>- Answers will be posted Dec. 1,1992
>- No particular order.
>- All replies should include the quotes and I will reply as to which answers
>are incorrect.
>- Answers need only contain Movie Title.
> 
> 
>1. " Did you ever meet anyone you didn't kill?"
>	" I haven't killed you yet."

Lethal Weapon, probably part 2.....

> 
>2. " In my club if a girl doesn't wear mink she doesn't wear nothing."
>	" I look good both ways."

Don't know, but sounds real interesting!!  O:-)

>4. " I shot the clerk? "

Thelma and Louise????

> 
>5. " I thought someone in this house should be having sex with something that
>	doesn't require batteries."

AAARGGHH!!!!  I know this one, but can't remember it!!!!!!

>9. " One thing I never could stomach about Santa Carla, all the damn Vampires."

The Lost Boys

And yes, these are all guesses....

yub yub, Carl
From: subrahma@usc.edu (Sudhakar Subrahmanyam)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Answers to Trivia Quiz II
Date: 16 Nov 92 06:08:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: aludra.1e9654INNeho
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Here are the answers:

1. The only person to win an oscar posthumously was Peter Finch for the movie
" Network".
2. Gutzon Borglum was the architect of Mount Rushmore.
3. Popeye's girl Olive Oyl had vital statistics of 19-19-19.
4. Longest palindrome in the English language : Redivider
5. Only mammal susceptible to leprosy (apart from humans): The Armadillo.

- sudhakar
----------------------
subrahma@aludra.usc.edu
-----------------------
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Subject: Re: Last Line Lyric Quiz
Organization: Enea Data AB
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:16:27 GMT

"Pamela J. Bernhardt" <pb2i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>The answers will be posted after Thanksgiving.

Well, according to my calender Thanksgiving was over a month
ago, so it would be strange if they were posted before.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
From: subrahma@usc.edu (Sudhakar Subrahmanyam)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Answers to TRIVIA QUIZ III
Date: 23 Nov 1992 08:41:51 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

1. The flag of Mozambique features a Kalashnikov rifle.
2. Sopia Loren was once imprisoned in the Casa Circondarialli prison for tax
 evasions.
3. The game invented by Charles Darrow - Monopoly
4. Dr. Calab Bradham concocted Pepsi Cola.
5. Keranothenatophobia - Fear of artificial satellites falling on one's head. 

- sudhakar
---------------------------
subrahma@aludra.usc.edu
---------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: mag@cs.uiuc.edu (Tom Magliery)
Subject: Re: Zed's Trivia Contest, Part Two
Reply-To: mag@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:12:02 GMT

mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN) writes:

>>7. (2 points) Two towns, one in Washington and one in Minnesota, share
>>an interesting distinction in that the only roads connecting them with
>>the rest of America go through Canada.  For one point apiece, name
>>these two towns.

>You seem to have forgotten the considerable number of towns in Alaska which
>are indeed part of the United States, are connected via Highways to the rest
>of america and which do indeed go thorough Canada.

Any of these towns which has a road to another Alaskan town, which road
does not go through Canada, is disqualified.  (And besides, he never
actually said that the WA and MN towns were the only two...)

mag
-- 
Tom Magliery ** Dept of CS ** 1304 W Springfield ** Champaign IL 61820 ** USA
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
Subject: Nobel prize trivia question
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:52:56 GMT

A week or so ago, someone asked who the only person was to win both
a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.  I missed the answer and the
question has been burning a hole in my brain every since.  If anyone
knows could they please email me.

C Frog
amorgan@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Andrew Weiskopf)
Subject: Re: Answers to Trivia Quiz II
Reply-To: st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:54:25 GMT

In article <Bxwq43.67u@techbook.com>, dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
>subrahma@usc.edu (Sudhakar Subrahmanyam) writes:
>>4. Longest palindrome in the English language : Redivider
>
>I emailed to Sudhakar about this, but he chose to ignore it.
>
>I'll put this in the form of a challenge:  find a dictionary that has
>"redivider" in it.  It must be a complete word in boldface type (either
>a headword or a run-in entry), not just derived from two or three
>separate entries.
>
>---
>Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com


Is redivider really a word? What does it mean?

-Andrew Weiskopf
 ST891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Peanuts Doctoral Exam
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:51:09 GMT
Reply-To: ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
>Please e-mail the answers to this "exam" to me, too!  I think i was in
>California when they were posted...

Hi all.

The reason nobody's got this yet is that I've been swamped at work.  I'll
post the answers as soon as I can (with luck, by the end of the week).

N

(Sorry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Jessica Raine)
Subject: Re: Movie Quote Quiz Part II
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:03:20 GMT

The quote about having sex with sommat as don't require batt'ries...it's
from PARENTS. (Martha Plimpton 'splainin' why she's been sleeping with
Keanu Reeves. Dumb flick. COUSINS was better.)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Subject: Re: Answers to Trivia Quiz II
Organization: Pseudopolis Yard
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:20:55 GMT

subrahma@usc.edu (Sudhakar Subrahmanyam) writes:
>4. Longest palindrome in the English language : Redivider

I emailed to Sudhakar about this, but he chose to ignore it.

I'll put this in the form of a challenge:  find a dictionary that has
"redivider" in it.  It must be a complete word in boldface type (either
a headword or a run-in entry), not just derived from two or three
separate entries.  This is a real challenge, since I don't know of any
such dictionary.  I've looked in quite a few and can't find it.  I'd be
happy to hear of one that has it.

Find two longer palindromes that are in English language dictionaries.
And, yes, I do know of two.


---
Dan Tilque    --     dant@techbook.com