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More productive, in the Rosetta Code context, to just state the problem, leave the technique of its solution to the contributors, and let a hundred flowers bloom. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 12:04, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
: Well I've just had a go at making the task less prescriptive yet with a view to limiting the output. It wasn't easy and I would have been nice to have a nice mathematical way of representing the permutation technique, in the same way that one can with big sigma and big pi for arithmetic formulae. [[User:Axtens|Axtens]] ([[User talk:Axtens|talk]]) 07:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
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:: Yuppers, my thinking also. But I just wanted to hear it from the horse's mouth. (Er ... that's some form of a compliment.) I also assumed they might be ''phrases'' in the dictionary, words that contain non-letters, and possibly malformed words. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 21:46, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
::: Okay, here's the horse speaking. I don't care about case as such. The original illustration of the teacup used uppercase letters. So for the sake of sanity, assume that "Tea" is the same as "TEA". Interestingly, English does not appear to offer solutions in words of any length greater than three. Now if I had the Oxford Unabridged's word list with words from Old and Middle English, who knows what might be found. [[User:Axtens|Axtens]] ([[User talk:Axtens|talk]]) 07:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
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