Jun 14
Programming
I recently heard about a Car Talk puzzler. I don’t listen to Car Talk as much as I used to. Anyway, you can read about the puzzler and the fellow who solved it here. This is an excerpt.
During Christmas week on the popular National Public Radio show Car Talk, the weekly puzzler required listeners to find the longest English word that remains a valid English word as you remove its letters one at a time, but without rearranging any of the letters. For example: sprite, spit, pit, it, I. There are many such words, but, as Barr discovered, only one with 11 letters.
So, only one word with eleven letters: complecting. Maybe. I’m not convinced, but finding out is easy.
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