Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] Nweek 87 Proposal Resolution

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 8, 2005, at 11.06 PM, The Voice wrote:

> > Two important points:
> > 1) The title forms only four acronyms. The fact that the first word is
> > entirely capitalized does nothing. Good luck convincing anyone to
> > acronymize "gnu's not unix" by "gnununu".
> > 2) My tweak removed this flaw.
>
> I would respectfully disagree on the first part, because GNU is an
> acronym whether or not it is capitalized.  I believe the rule said,
> "contains an acronym"... I believe it contained an infinite number of
> acronyms.

Had it said "contains", I would agree that there are more than four in 
there. But even so there'd be finitely many, because there are finitely 
many characters in the title. But it said "forms", and so you'd only 
get four Genechips for the ones it actually forms.

You seem to be trying to claim that because GNU can be rewritten as a 
longer string of words, the longer string of words should be considered 
when deciding which acronyms are "contained" in the title. Were this 
true, recursive acronyms would not be necessary - any string of 
characters can be expanded to some longer string, and so any title 
would be worth infinite genechips. I don't think it is true.

> Anyway, the tweak kind of makes this a moot point, huh?

True.

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