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« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2007, 17:17:18 »
Quote from: TerminalJunkie on November 25, 2007, 16:33:41
Which two are first and last if you put the letters in reverse order and then sort them? (eg SLOUGH=USOLHG instead of GHLOSU)

Do you include the one that's looked after by South West Trains but which appears in the FGW▸ (First Great Western) list of stations on their web site ... or should I look for the first one just up the way from Swindon?

And do you realise that if you sort stations in this order ... that Melksham (for once) comes in roughly the right place - 35th out of 278.

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You must be really bored!

Nah - good little demonstration.  Using similar bits of code that are used to work out some things with the human geonome which is 11 billion C A T and Gs - now THAT is boring!
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« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2007, 17:58:12 »
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You must be really bored! Grin

I have to do something to keep my mind off everybody's spelling mistakes!
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