jan's diary

Since yesterday I have discovered that

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are all 100 words.

I have found six 100 countries. I have just been to one of them (Honduras) and would like to visit two more (Suriname and Vanuatu).

Afghanistan Honduras Somaliland Suriname Vanuatu Turkey

To find these words I used this program. Warning: the program is far from perfect. If a word is not surrounded by spaces it will not score. For example “Honduras,” will not score. Only the words that score 100 are listed in the results. Which new words can you find?

I got an email from a student of mine today with this document attached. The idea was this:

Take a piece of paper, right now, and write out the word ATTITUDE. Now assign each letter the number that letter corresponds to and add those numbers up. Guess what, they add up to 100%. A=1, T=20, T=20, I=9, T=20, U=21, D=4, E=5 = 100%. Attitude is everything folks.

So, who said numerology died with Pythagoras?!

I wrote a little javascript to test other words. Type in ‘attitude’ in the box below and see what happens.

Type a word: 

Attitude is important. Tolstoy said: “If you want to be happy, be it.” But discipline should also be practised as it also adds to 100.

My modesty does not prevent me to add that my last name, Nordgreen, adds to 100 as well.

Norway adds to 96. Can you find a country that adds to 100? What about a city? A movie star? A piece of furniture? 

Here is the javascript code:

<script type=”text/javascript”>

function calculate(arg)

{

arg = arg.toLowerCase();

result = “”;

sum = 0;

for (i=0; i<arg.length; i++)

  {

  value = arg.charCodeAt(i)-96;

  sum = sum + value;

  result = result + value + ” + “;

  }

result = result.substring(0, result.length – 3) + ” = ” + sum;

if (arg == “”) result = “”;

document.getElementById(‘result’).innerHTML= result;  

}

</script>  

<p>Type a word: <input type=”text” onkeyup=”calculate(this.value);”></p>

<p id=”result”>&nbsp;</p>