Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Wed, May 16, 11:59
Just for fun, I took someone's recent suggestion (I forget who) and built a function that generates a random spelling of . (This only works in the baseball forum.)
The function produces a spelling which starts "Mientk" and then finishes with a series of random letters. Each time this item appears, the spelling will be different, so if you put in a second time, it should be a different spelling. And the next time you open the same thread, all of the spellings will be different again.
To insert this in your message, just click on the appropriate link which is below the text entry area. This will place the proper code at the end of your text. If you need to move it, make sure you move the entire item, starting with the script tag, and ending with the /noscript tag.
For those who don't have JavaScript enabled in your browser, you'll just see the correct spelling. That's your punishment for not enabling scripting!
Have some fun!
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BillB Sustainer
ID: 493403019 Wed, May 16, 17:53
Holy , Batman!
Love it, loooooove it Guru!!!
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Catfish Sustainer
ID: 20557322 Wed, May 16, 18:51
So what about the fan club -- those 16 guys who show up at Twins games and spell out 's name on their abs. How do they keep up with this random generator?
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Baldwin
ID: 144331618 Wed, May 16, 18:58
Goodnite Mr wherever you are.
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BillB Sustainer
ID: 493403019 Wed, May 16, 19:06
If is on Wheel of Fortune, at the MLB minimum salary of $200,000 he can afford to buy 800 vowels for his last name...
BTW, can anyone calculate 's value in Scrabble?
Oh this is too much fun...
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Stretch Nuts
ID: 20315412 Wed, May 16, 19:15
Mient
hehehehe, I can do it too!
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Big Hath
ID: 362561719 Wed, May 16, 19:17
If you get him to say his name backward, will he disapear from the money gainer list? (ala Mr. Mxyzptlk)
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BIG RUSS
ID: 0853519 Wed, May 16, 19:25
what the is going on around here???
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BIG RUSS
ID: 0853519 Wed, May 16, 19:27
By the way, I think we have too much time on our hands!!!
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gibby88
ID: 50451220 Wed, May 16, 21:09
Frikin' love it, GURU!!
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Optimization Leader
ID: 293222518 Wed, May 16, 21:47
Mientkixass!!! Mientkandy!!! Mientkrap.
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Craig
ID: 354101213 Wed, May 16, 23:50
OK that was fun, but he did post a -4 tonight. Bad karma? Stay tuned...
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Joy to the world
ID: 34551620 Thu, May 17, 00:58
When I was in college I had surgery to have my removed.
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GoWhiteSox
ID: 233302723 Thu, May 17, 01:00
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killerbs
ID: 292222611 Fri, May 18, 13:59
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The Machine
ID: 441041515 Fri, May 18, 14:10
My Mientknwxkizu is 3 inches...........from the ground.
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Kings Fan
ID: 34451812 Fri, May 18, 14:12
MientinvalidrosternoTHMblazerssuckRICHARDhacks
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Chuck
ID: 35853023 Fri, May 18, 16:58
Re post 10:
Assuming each time the computer randomly picks 6 and only 6 different letters (no more, no less), the probability of it coming up exactly as Mientkiewicz is:
1:26^6 OR 1:308,915,776
Don't spend too much time trying to get it to come up... :-)
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Ira
ID: 17112317 Fri, May 18, 22:22
language="JavaScript">mientk();
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Ira
ID: 17112317 Fri, May 18, 22:24
Damn, it doesnt wok for me!
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AdMaN Donor
ID: 354521018 Sun, May 20, 02:41
YEAAAAAA :-)
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Moray Striker
ID: 561462423 Sun, May 20, 03:17
Mientk
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Moray Striker
ID: 561462423 Sun, May 20, 03:19
Just showing this off at a party. I think I drank too much
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PudgeFan07
ID: 40214259 Sun, May 20, 10:00
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OKIPAPPA
ID: 32411420 Sun, May 20, 12:07
Mientk
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sloppy
ID: 24232012 Sun, May 20, 14:55
mientkeiwitcz
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Strike One
ID: 39252299 Sun, May 20, 15:01
hehe, this is just way too funny
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whatsupike
ID: 39142511 Sun, May 20, 15:34
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Huskiez
ID: 334111 Sun, May 20, 19:11
with a single and a strikeout. Hopefully his sell off will begin.
Miento fighting dogs after dinner at the lake and esting raw ducks and making out of turtles and spilling it out on the road for car to crash on.......I can't believe i just did that.
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Greenbelt
ID: 15559149 Thu, Jun 14, 11:42
No "soup" for #89...LOL!!!
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perk9600
ID: 4542177 Thu, Jun 14, 11:45
At some point, in theory you should hit the randomizer and the right spelling should pop up. I wonder how many times you would have to do it before that would happen. I know that I have said this before but I am still waiting to see it happen.
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Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 1832399 Thu, Jun 14, 11:49
I can't believe there are no statisticians here who could answer that in a second.
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Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 1832399 Thu, Jun 14, 11:49
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Strike One
ID: 39252299 Thu, Jun 14, 11:53
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Strike One
ID: 39252299 Thu, Jun 14, 11:56
Perk, It would be around 1 in every 3,670,333,870,000,000
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Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 1832399 Thu, Jun 14, 11:59
Taking a statistics class, Strike One?
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McBain
ID: 46104534 Thu, Jun 14, 12:01
oh that's why i see it so often!!!
Mientk Mientk hahahhahahahah
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McBain
ID: 46104534 Thu, Jun 14, 12:01
hey... didnt work...................
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slar Sustainer
ID: 357252920 Thu, Jun 14, 12:11
Gee MITH, if you read post # 71 you might just find your answer. Since the randomizer seems to append 6,7 or 8 letters to the end of th 'Mientk' string the odds are probably 3X Chuck's probability. Almost a billion to one shot. I'm not holding MY breath.
Strike One, trade that flea market calculator for a real one. ;}
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blah
ID: 33935517 Wed, Mar 02, 2005, 10:09
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Wed, Mar 02, 2005, 10:59
The odds are actually about 1 in 4,826,809.
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J Leader
ID: 049346417 Wed, Mar 02, 2005, 11:31
wouldn't it be more like: 1 in 6,080,389,219,008
Given: there are up to 15 characters returned. The first 6 are always - Mientk Characters 7-12 you have 26 to choose from Characters 13-15 you have 27 to choose from (if you assume a space is counted as a character with the same probability as any other letter)
There would have to be some kind of stipulation though that if character 13 is empty, then so is 14 and 15, and I'm not sure how to calculate that!??!?!
So...26*26*26*26*26*26*27*27*27=6,080,389,219,008
I'm sure there's also something I'm missing, i've actually got a degree in stats and am working hard to forget everything i learned :)
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Wed, Mar 02, 2005, 11:54
Your are assuming some things that are not part of the program.
The program appends 6 random letters or letter combos to the end of "Mientk". Not every letter in the alphabet is made available. When there are exactly 6 letters appended, then 6 single letters have been chosen. When there are more than 6, then one or more letter combos has been selected as an alternative to a single letter. For example, one available letter combo is "cz".
So, what we need is a random selection of i-e-w-i-c-z in that precise order. Each of those single letters has a 1/13 chance of being selected. So the chance of a correct spelling is only 1 in 136.
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Wed, Mar 02, 2005, 11:59
BTW, the chance of a correct spelling of Roethlisberger is 5 times greater, or slightly under 1 per million.
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