last word (was Re: Looking for Magic Polyhedra)

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From: Tom Magliery
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 03:26

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In article <150@paradigm.stanford.edu> kon@paradigm.Stanford.EDU (Ronnie Kon) writes:
>	Objpuzzle for rec.puzzles: consider a dictionary in which all words
>are alphabetized according to their alpha-sorted letter order (thus the
>word banana is spelled "aaabnn" for the purpose of alphabetization).  What is
>the last word in this dictionary?

here goes...

either it's "tutu" or it's one of those obscure words that only
rec.puzzlers know...

mag
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Tom Magliery
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From: tpmg0848@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Magliery)
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Subject: last word (was Re: Looking for Magic Polyhedra)
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