David Alan Black <dblack / candle.superlink.net> writes:

> Interesting idea.  A first go at this (with, I confess, papered-over
> treatment of uppercase letters, i.e., everything is getting downcased
> pending some work on that part) is the first threat to the Reign of
> Unpack.  The following is based on all of /usr/dict/words, using
> letter frequencies derived directly from that file:
> 
> 			 user     system      total        real
>    [first reports removed]
>    frequency        14.470000   0.000000  14.470000 ( 14.483800)
>    orig_primes      24.450000   0.010000  24.460000 ( 24.458457)
>    unpack           15.550000   0.050000  15.600000 ( 15.613195)

I think this has been one of the more interesting threads I've seen on 
a newsgroup. I love the cooperative way you folks are exploring the
problem space and refining the solutions. Have you considered writing
all this up? I think the idea that (for example) letter frequencies
would make a different to an anagram finding program might surprise
many readers.

We could stick it under the articles on RubyCentral if you wanted to
web publish.


Thanks


Dave