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– Following a recent idea, to measure fame by the number of Google hits found in a search on the WWW, we study the relation between fame (Google hits) and merit (number of papers posted on an electronic archive) for a random group of scientists in condensed matter and statistical physics. Our findings show that fame and merit in science are linearly related, and that the probability distributio...

An effective program created to play the worldwide famous crossword game SCRABBLE. It uses an efficient data structure that allows fast moves searching possible words trough the lexicon, while an heuristic function determinates the best word to be played, by means of probabilities and sensible considerations. Here is considered the two players version of the game.