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From: "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.b...@nashville.gov>
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Subject: Re: Word Loop (#149)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:42:20 -0500
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> I've looked over those examples a few times and I'm totally baffled.
> What does "loop the text around and reuse that letter" mean?

Imagine your word as a string. You're trying to make a knot, just a fold
really, in the string, and the bit where the string folds over itself is
a repeated letter.

- donald