Along the same lines, can anyone top A AN ANT ANTS ANTSY ?
From: Richard Guy <rkg@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> To: Math Fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com>, Andrew Bremner <bremner@tulwar.la.asu.edu>, <bremner@asu.edu>
I recently ran across a word problem, which I vaguely remember from years ago, and which (evidently) has the solution
S T A R T L I N G S T A R L I N G S T A R I N G S T R I N G S T I N G S I N G S I N I N I
Does anyone know of similar (longer?) examples? R.
One sequence is: aspirate, spirate, pirate, irate, rate, ate, Te, e A different sequence, which ends prematurely: chorizont (one who ascribes the Iliad and the Odyssey to different authors) C-horizon (a particular layer of soil) chorizo (a kind of spicy sausage) backsplash (the rear of a kitchen counter), backslash (\), backlash Many more items of wordplay can be seen at http://puzzlers.org/guide/ For square numbers, the one admitting the most number deletion down to a single digit is 134689 13689 1369 169 16 1 --Ed Pegg Jr, www.mathpuzzle.com
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