I’m bored, so I decided to amuse myself with a self-referential puzzle. This post on brainwagon.org (including the title “a self-referential puzzle” but not any footers) contains thirteen As, four Bs, four Cs, seven Ds, fifty five Es, nineteen Fs, five Gs, ten Hs, twenty nine Is, fourteen Ls, four Ms, thirty three Ns, seventeen Os, five Ps, twenty Rs, thirty eight Ss, thirty five Ts, eleven Us, nine Vs, six Ws, two Xs, nine Ys, and seven Zs.
Or does it?
Ron Hardin has a big list of these. Here’s part of it: http://home.att.net/~rhhardin/decimal.html
and here’s an index of the whole thing: http://home.att.net/~rhhardin/selfref.html
I left another one of these running in my simulated annealing program, and generated a new .signature file:
What’s cool is that it actually fits in four lines and ran for over 10 hours before stumbling onto the right solution.