My daughter came home with an interesting math assignment. She is supposed to find words that when you substitute numbers 1-26 for the letters A-Z and then add up all the values for the letters in the word, you get the largest results. Her assignment was to find 10 words over 100, which was actually pretty easy. They do have to be dictionary words. That leaves out the first one the kids all thought of, SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALADOCIOUS (sp?) at
371. Leaving out other questionable words, like PSEUDOANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (also sp?) at 387, what's the best you can come up with. She found 212 on her own, and I found 250. My wife and I both came up with the same "shortest word over 100" with SYZYGY.No, you're not helping her cheat on her homework. She's got it done, ready to turn in tomorrow morning.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!