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  2. Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Print two words taken from a list of salutations; Do the following 5 times: Choose one of two sentence structures depending on a random value Rand; Fill the sentence structure from lists of adjectives, adverbs, substantives, and verbs. Print the letter's closing [9] The lists of words were compiled by Strachey from a Roget's Thesaurus. [10]

  3. Matrix (printing) - Wikipedia

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    Matrices created by Jean Jannon around 1640. The Garamond typeface installed with most Microsoft software is based on these designs. [1] [2] [3]In the manufacture of metal type used in letterpress printing, a matrix (from the Latin meaning womb or a female breeding animal) is the mould used to cast a letter, known as a sort. [4]

  4. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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    Thirteen letters change shape between print and cursive, while the slant of 85 degrees, measured counterclockwise from the base line, does not change at all. Thurber designed the D'Nealian Method to alleviate the problems with teaching children the traditional script method and the subsequent difficulty transitioning to cursive writing.

  5. Diceware - Wikipedia

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    A Diceware word list is any list of 6 5 = 7 776 unique words, preferably ones the user will find easy to spell and to remember. The contents of the word list do not have to be protected or concealed in any way, as the security of a Diceware passphrase is in the number of words selected, and the number of words each selected word could be taken ...

  6. Generative literature - Wikipedia

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    The first examples of automated generative literature are poetry: John Clark's mechanical Latin Verse Machine (1830–1843) produced lines of hexameter verse in Latin, [1] [2] and Christopher Strachey's love letter generator (1952), programmed on the Manchester Mark 1 computer, generated short, satirical love letters. [3] Examples of generative ...

  7. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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    A printer in Leipzig inspecting a large forme of type on a cylinder press in 1952. Each of the islands of text represents a single page. The darker blocks are images. The whole bed of type is printed on a single sheet of paper, which is then folded and cut to form many individual pages of a book.

  8. Boggle - Wikipedia

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    Using the sixteen cubes in a standard Boggle set, the list of longest words that can be formed includes inconsequentially, quadricentennials, and sesquicentennials, all seventeen-letter words made possible by q and u appearing on the same face of one cube. [2] Words within words are allowed, such as "mast" and "aster" within "master".

  9. Stencil - Wikipedia

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    The resulting image is a negative print of the hand, and is sometimes described as a "stencil" in Australian archaeology. [10] Miniature rock art of the stencilled variety at a rock shelter known as Yilbilinji, in the Limmen National Park in the Northern Territory, is one of only three known examples of