On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack / candle.superlink.net> writes:
> 
> D> three methods (yours, your new one, my one) using seven separate word
> D> files; each file contains 10000 words of fixed length.  Here are the
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>  10000 _differents_ words, or can you have some same words ?

I did something along the lines of:

 ruby -ne 'print if $_.size == 6 and /^\w+$/' /usr/dict/words > fives

and then just cat'ed it to itself to bring it up to 10000.

So the rate of same words probably varies from one file to another.
But the effect of two same words should be the same as the effect of
an anagram (i.e., we're expecting some of that anyway), shouldn't it?


David

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