On: The Elegance of Deflate

[jamesfisher]

> This paragraph has five-hundred and sixty-one lower-case letters in

It must have taken some trial-and-error to make this sentence correct, since the number itself adds some letters.

[syntheticnature → jamesfisher]

Interestingly, it can work in-place if you change it to "This paragraph has five-hundred and sixty-three lower-case letters in"

[to3m → jamesfisher]

Pick a value that's close enough, and tweak everything else until it's true :) This post has one hundred and thirty-two chars in it.

[vintermann → to3m]

This, ten