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Searching for Autograms

created: May 29, 2025, 3:31 a.m. | updated: June 1, 2025, 3:15 a.m.

Consider how Lee Sallows, the inventor of autograms, describes searching for one by hand:Suppose, for instance, a few day’s painstaking labour have at last yielded a near-perfect specimen: only the x’s are wrong. Lee Sallows - In Quest of a PangramI’m interested in constructing my own autograms from custom messages. The trick for a cycle of period 1With a modification, this same iterative process can find autograms and avoid getting trapped in undesirable, large cycles. 9 of those cycles are period 1 autograms. Autogram-This is my GitHub repo with the Python I wrote to generate and validate autograms.

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