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How to read these anagrams.

Consider the below snippet from anagrams of "anagrams"

nags snag a nag as

arm mar ram Mr a 4

To make a full anagram choose one word from each column. The anagrams listed here are:

1. nags a arm (+ arm a nags, a nags arm, etc)
2. nags a mar
3. nags a ram
4. nags a Mr a
5. snag a arm
6. snag a mar
7. snag a ram
8. snag a Mr a
9. nag as arm
10. nag as mar
11. nag as ram
12. nag as Mr a

You can see how doing it this way means there's much less to read, so you can scan them much quicker. This example packs 12 word combinations into 4 lines. If there were 3 columns of 10 words each, that would take (10 × 10 × 10 =) 1,000 lines, or 3,000 words, to display conventionally, but only 10 lines, or 30 words to display in this way.

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