On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Karl von Laudermann wrote:

> On Aug 3, 9:01 am, Ruby Quiz <ja... / grayproductions.net> wrote:
>>
>> When working with hexadecimal numbers it is likely that you've  
>> noticed some hex
>> numbers are also words. For example, 'bad' and 'face' are both  
>> English words and
>> valid hex numbers (2989 and 64206, respectively, in decimal). I  
>> got to thinking
>> that it would be interesting to find out how many and which hex  
>> numbers were
>> also valid English words. Of course, almost immediately I started  
>> to think of
>> generalizations. What about other bases? What about languages  
>> other than
>> English?
>
> I'm not sure why this quiz is being phrased as "numbers that are
> words". Aren't you just asking for a program that finds words that use
> only the first n letters of the alphabet? Or am I missing something
> obvious (tends to happen :-) )?

That's pretty much the quiz, yes.  It's not too hard to solve, but  
the results are pretty interesting.

James Edward Gray II