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Python programs that perform this task and their outputs are displayed in a book whose title is spelled “pound sign, exclamation point” and pronounced “shebang”. A trip to the Taiwanese park Taroko Gorge inspired Nick Montfort to write a program that does this, which led to many remix programs like Andrew Plotkin’s “Argot Ogre, OK!”. Founding Fluxus artist Alison Knowles wrote a FORTRAN program that was one of the first (-5[1])to perform this action, in her work The House of Dust. A floppy disk containing a program that does this and then encrypts (-5[1])itself is part of William Gibson’s Agrippa (0[1]-5[1])(A Book of the Dead). The reader performs this action by flipping between strips of paper in a work of (*) Oulipo literature by Raymond Queneau, partially titled for the number “one hundred thousand billion”. For 10 points, programs performing what action might need to keep track (10[2]0[1])of prosody and rhyme? ■END■

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