In the alphabet why do we only incude the uppercase letters but we dont include the lowercase letters???????? Because if there are uppercase and lower case whouldn't there be 52 letters in the alphabete????
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Maybe by alphabete they only count "different" ones. I mean, N and n are basically the same. There's no point going over the same letter twice.
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.......  the alphabet
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This is true only if the items are distinct. For example if the data set is the 26 letter alphabet and we take letters without replacement, then the number of permutations (order matters, so a,b is different from b,a) is 26*25 while the number of combinations (order does not matter, taking a, then b is the same as taking b, then a) is 26*25/2. \n\nIf our data set contains copies, like the letters in this sentence, then combinations of identical letters would not count doubly (so, a,a is not a seperate permutation from a,a).
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Do you realize how completely annoying it is when people TyPe LiKe ThIs???  And words like beginnners, stockings, skirts answers all end in S, not Z!  Please, just because this is the internet doesn't mean we need to completely abandon basic grammar, spelling and formatting rules.\n\nThank you.
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the alphabet backwards
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excellent\n\nIt's preety obvious, since it's quite long\n\nOther word I found, but perhaps they are formed by mere coincidence:\nsay\nguy\nsaw\nqwerty(it's the name of the layout of keyboard that have qwerty as it's first six letter of the alphabet top row, most keyboard have this layout)\nqwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm (not necesarilly a word, but it's a sequence that happens when you run the keyboard from topleft to top right, then middleright to middleleft, then bottom left to bottom right of your keyboard!)\nrun\nexcel\nexcellent\nguy\nprey\ncure\nnun\ntie\n\nNote: if you wonder how there is these words, then you have to know that Yahoo Answer cuts words that is longer than a certain length, you had to move your cursor over it to see the rest of the word, but even this may not be enough, you had to see the html source of the webpage to see the whole of them
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How did they do that? Lower case "m"?\n\nEveryone do me a favor please.\n\nReport the mainworry, lower case "m".\n\nThank you for letting me know and thank you for reporting.
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Add the first 5 letters of the alphabet to each of those words to spell a new word:\n\nadd 'a' to 'bash' to spell 'abash'\nadd 'b' to 'ale' to spell 'bale'\nadd 'c' to 'able' to spell 'cable'\nadd 'd' to 'ear' to spell 'dear'\nadd 'e' to 'bony' to spell 'ebony'\n\nI think it took me about 2 hours to finally get that.  Doesn't seem like it should have been that hard afterall.
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every letter in the alphabet
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I got plenty of D's... \nSo, I know them to exist.\n\nIf you mean E's...\nThe reason is that folks would confuse an E with "excellent", and that would not fit the \nSystem of Letter Grading as intended.
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I totally hate it when people can't be bothered to type a few extra letters. I think it makes people appear stupid. So I don't know if I am talking to an uneducated adult, a lazy adult, a child, or all of the above.\n\nttfn,\nme
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Find the error. It's impossible!\nCapital "F" and capital "I" and a "." or an"!".\nThe alphabet is just "a red herring"
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Numbers and the alphabet have evolved over time, they were not just invented one day by one person.\n\nOur numbers are derived from the arabic numbering system, except 0 which was invented in India.\n\nThe alphabet is a combination of greek, roman and arabic alphabets that vaguely reflect the ordering of the greek alphabet.
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that is only 15 letters
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WOW!!!! There are no E's... which is the most commonly used letter in our language!!!1
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Is there some reason you didn't spell this out so we can read it???\nI mean you are not charged for each letter...
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Would it help to encode the characters before storing them, and decode the characters when reading them? That way you can easily mix character sets.\n\nRawlyn.