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Re: religious wars


On a humid Monday night, the 11th day of June, 2007, Matthew Woehlke's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> One Angry User wrote:
> > On a balmy Monday night, the 11th day of June, 2007, Matthew Woehlke's
> > computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> > > One Angry User wrote:
> > > > Bcss, iy kym inn, in vigdlc... :-)
> > > woah, that was freaky... one of the iterations is correct (for the
> > > letters present, anyway) except that 's' and 'l' are switched.
> >
> > You mean you actually iterated 41 times instead of once in the other
> > direction? :-)
>
> Yeah... <up>, <enter> takes /soooo/ much effort, dontcha know :-).
> (I didn't know what direction to try, so I picked one, and it seems
> eventually it worked :-).)

Luckily for you, that function has an iteration period of 42.
Coincidence?  I think not!

OAU


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