From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET  Sat Mar  6 22:46:29 2010
Reply-To: "Paulo S.L.M. Barreto" <pbarreto@UNISYS.COM.BR>
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Date: Sat Dec 16 17:30:49 1995
From: "Paulo S.L.M. Barreto" <pbarreto@UNISYS.COM.BR>
Subject:      The gismu creation algorithm
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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The scoring criterion used by the gismu creation algorithm checks
for matches between proposed gismu and words of the source languages
considering only letters *in the same order*.

However, I frequently feel as if letter order was not really considered
in that process. In fact, by rearranging letters one gets longer matches.
Is it just a coincidence, or perhaps a bug in the program? :-)

co'o mi'e paulos.

  Paulo S.L.M. Barreto.
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.