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The following page is an alphabetical section from the list of PC games. I. Name Developer Publisher Genre(s) Operating system(s) ... March 3, 2003: Icewind Dale ...
Atari Games: Rail shooter: 1 The End — 1980 Konami: Enduro Racer — 1987 Sega: Racing: 1 Enforce — 1989 Taito: Enma Daiō — 1993 Toaplan: Equites — 1984 Alpha Denshi: Scrolling shooter: 2 Erotictac — 1990 Sisteme ES Evolution Soccer — 2001 Evoga Entertainment: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters — 1989 Atari Games ...
The game antakshari (ant means end, akshar means letter), played in India, Pakistan and Nepal also involves chaining, but with verses of movie songs (usually Bollywood songs). In Russia, a game similar to the Word chain is called Words (Russian: слова), or "A Game of Cities" ( Игра в города ) if played using city and town names.
The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...
The exact phrase three-letter acronym appeared in the sociology literature in 1975. [1] Three-letter acronyms were used as mnemonics in biological sciences, from 1977 [2] and their practical advantage was promoted by Weber in 1982. [3] They are used in many other fields, but the term TLA is particularly associated with computing. [4]
Mass Effect 3 is a 2012 action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.The third major entry in the Mass Effect series and the final installment of the original trilogy, it was released in March 2012 for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
Donald Knuth used a computer to study word ladders of five-letter words. He felt that three and four were too easy and six was too hard. [3] Knuth used a collection of 5,757 common English five-letter words, excluding proper nouns. He wrote a program which showed the steps connecting any two words, or noted that no connection was possible. [3]
In the majority of alternades, every second letter is used to make two smaller words, but in some cases, every third letter is used to make three smaller words. Theoretically, a very long word could use every fourth letter to make four smaller words; e.g., «partitioned» is an alternade for «pin», «ate», «rid», and «to».