[MPlayer-dev-eng] Quiz

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:21:50AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:36, Torinthiel wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:18:53AM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> > > OK,
> > >
> > > I dunno why, but I coded this, now find out what it does. That's all you
> > > have to do.
> > > You get 10l subtracted from your cola account if you win this.
> > > First correctly explained answer wins.
> > >
> > > It's probably too lame for real developers, but it's fun :)
> >
> > In every word, as a sequence of any number of letters, digits and _
> > leaves intact the first and last character and does a random permutation
> > of all the middle ones.
> yes, you've won, the funny thing about it is, we are still able to read a text 
> file processed by the script with nearly no extra effort.
> The scientific experiment behind it is, that it doesn't really matter in which 
> order the characters in a word are, as long a first and last letter are in 
> correct order, we are able to read it. I guess it wouldn't work so well with 
> unknown words =)

What's sad is that it took a scientific experiment to determine this..
Apparently they'd never heard of "pr0n"...

Rich