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Copyright: Charles Bennett, Ming Li, Bin Ma, Nov. 1999


Letters

These chain letters were collected by Charles Bennett during the period of 1980--1995. We have used these letters in our study "Linking chain letters" by Charles Bennett, Ming Li and Bin Ma. A popularized version of this paper has appeared in the June 2003 issue of Scientific American. For more serious readers, here is a more mathematical version. The following are the very texts of the letters that were used as inputs to our programs and in our study. Following each text file, we have also included the original version of the letter for comparison and verification purposes.

Some Other Letters (Not used in our study)

The following letters were also collected by Charles Bennett during the period of 1980--1995. We have not used these letters in our study "Linking chain letters" due to obvious reasons. Some are non-English letters, although apparently originated from the same roots.


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