Crosswords meet computers
Jul. 11th, 2013 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylVia Paul in today's Guardian, a combination of crosswords and computers: Measure in computer language left smoke, in the words of Keats, to rise (8) which, after an embarrassingly long time, I worked out as megaflop.
(I think the clue is a charade that parses as: left is l, smoke is fag, the words of Keats is poem; in is an envelope indicator and to rise indicates a reversal. Works for me...)
(I think the clue is a charade that parses as: left is l, smoke is fag, the words of Keats is poem; in is an envelope indicator and to rise indicates a reversal. Works for me...)
