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Care to explain the solution?
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I don't even know how to explain it all, something to do with errors and pigs, so my mind went to Hamming codes, which are error correcting codes.
Hamming code - Wikipedia
Quote: In computer science and telecommunication, Hamming codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes. Hamming codes can detect one-bit and two-bit errors, or correct one-bit errors without detection of uncorrected errors [...] Richard W. Hamming invented Hamming codes in 1950 as a way of automatically correcting errors introduced by punched card readers. In his original paper, Hamming elaborated his general idea, but specifically focused on the Hamming(7,4) code which adds three parity bits to four bits of data.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Turn a pig into sandwich filler: mage it into ham: HAMMING.
And app to do that? HAMMING CODE.
OK, I'll do it tomorrow!
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Thank you 
All I got was Pigs -> Ham and when I saw Find errors, my mind went to error correcting codes, so there was the second part of the answer, Code, and the most famous (for me) error correcting code is the Hamming code. I know I am doing a poor job of explaining, but it just clicked in my mind, I spent maybe 5 seconds on it 
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Vikram.
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The definition makes it easy enough, but how do you get hamming from ham? I don't see what clues for -ming.
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Well a "ham code" app doesn't make sense, so I verbified the noun! "Hamming" is a word (and a verb as in "hamming it up") so the gerund (I think - I was off to play with the fairies a lot during boring English classes) of "to ham a pig" would be "hamming a pig". Might be a present participle though.
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I recognize a lot from Garfield from real life cats.
Most cats have these character traits in varying degrees: they're lazy, they treat you like furniture or a scratching post, they're entitled little assholes, they think they're better than humans, they're ungrateful...
There's one thing all cats have in common though, whenever there's food they act like they're starving and this food will save their life.
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I'm not that much a cat person, but the cartoon reminded me very much my kids... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yep. Furface will come indoors in about 15 minutes, complaining he hasn't been fed this year ...
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So Garfield is a 20-something's now.
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More 40-something (76 or 78 is the birth year)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Dilbert Has Vacation Days[^]
That last panel ... many a true word spoken in jest!
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And the next panel would be Dilbert asking, "Wouldn't introspection be cheaper?"
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That reminds me of our dilemma to take an (expensive) campervan trip 
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Sounds like you have a story to tell.
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True, very true indeed
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I'm in the same situation.
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Indeed lots of truth in these few panels.
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[^] Disclaimer: I have no connection to this site, no relationship with anyone at the site.
I am so impressed by the quality of this website/resource developed by a multi-talented group of people (many with Ph.D.'s) in Poland ! "Too good not to share," as I used to hear in my boyhood (in the late Neolithic) from Dougie, the expert boy-thief of apple-turn-overs and donuts from Mr. Thompson's bakery.
An amazing range of calculators from imminently practical to "far-out:" [^].
Want a "vampire apocalypse calculator:" [^]
I am really enjoying their calculator+tutorial geometry examples, like [^], while I test the little geometry library for WinForms I am working on now.
I am impressed by the design of the web-site, which is not "kiddified," not dumbed-down, and, imho, has an elegant, yet minimalist, design ... with liberal use of white-space contributing to its readability. No pop-ups !
enjoy, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Greetings Thank you for the link I am proud of my Polish bretheren I trust they didn't merely copy Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence[^] By the way "Mucha" means "housefly" - Cheerioski
"I once put instant coffee into the microwave and went back in time." - Steven Wright
"Shut up and calculate" - apparently N. David Mermin possibly Richard Feynman
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: I trust they didn't merely copy Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
You doubt the integrity of your "brethren" ? Why not do some reading before making such allegations ?PaltryProgrammer wrote: By the way "Mucha" means "housefly"
Why are you telling me this ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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"Mucha" is the surname of the founder of the site I examined a few calculators though not too many Wolfram seems to offer similar abilities - Cheerioski
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On behalf of the Disneyland Character Casting staff, we appreciate your auditioning for the role of "Troll."
However, the consensus of our judges was that your performance, while sarcastic, lacked the comedic depth we expect for that role, lacked dramatic focus.
We found your wishing to be known by the name "Paltry" unsettling, given the etymology of that word:Quote: "mean, worthless, despicable," 1560s, probably an adjectival use of noun paltry "worthless thing" (1550s), associated with dialectal palt, pelt "trash," cognate with Middle Low German and East Frisian palte "rag," Middle Dutch palt "broken or torn fragment." Similar formation in Low German paltrig "rubbishy," East Frisian palterig "ragged, torn."
We want our Trolls to be subtly wicked, while still being folksy, and attractive. The glint in their eyes should suggest mischief-making, not malice.
Wishing you a brighter future, Disneyland, International.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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