You know this would be a great programming problem for CS students. Given the phrase "head less horse man", generate all 4-word phrases, repeated words allowed. (Some of the ones in this picture aren't 4 words, but anyways...)
Consider the words "head less horse man" to be digits in a base-4 number system; head=0 less=1 horse=2 man=3. Counting from 0 to (4^4)-1 would yield 256 unique values,
head head head head = 0
head head head less = 1
head head head horse = 2
head head head man = 3
head head less head = 10 (4 base 10)
..
man man man man = (4^4)-1 = 3333 (255 base 10)
Bonus points for funniest picture to go with a value (must be hand-drawn by student, no AI allowed) :)
EDIT: not permutations, which I originally said. It's more of an exercise in understanding how to count in bases other than 10.
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Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 3y
You know this would be a great programming problem for CS students. Given the phrase "head less horse man", generate all 4-word phrases, repeated words allowed. (Some of the ones in this picture aren't 4 words, but anyways...)
Consider the words "head less horse man" to be digits in a base-4 number system; head=0 less=1 horse=2 man=3. Counting from 0 to (4^4)-1 would yield 256 unique values,
Bonus points for funniest picture to go with a value (must be hand-drawn by student, no AI allowed) :)
EDIT: not permutations, which I originally said. It's more of an exercise in understanding how to count in bases other than 10.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 3y
no horseless headless horseman?
ChlorineAddict@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I don’t know why the Manhorse bothers me so much that it’s not a centaur..
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Meanwhile horseman…
Maybe he's born with it…maybe it's neighbelline?
Etterra@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
That joke is so dead that you're breaking a sweat flailing away at it.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Nah he's just BoJack Horseman
complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
is that.. the beatles?
elvith@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y
Missed opportunity: "maneless horse" and "horseless mane"
Etterra@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The meme forgot Centaur and Wrong Half
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
NGL goes hard