 | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader? —John D. Forinash
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| | | (...) Hm. Figuring the average letter is worth 13.5 points, this means that most words are going to be in the 7-8 letter range. That's probably reasonable for a third grader. I suppose it's a way to get in a heck of a lot of boring arithmetic (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Not sure this is a good assumption. The letters aren't evenly distributed -- for example, E is way more common than Z. The median letter is probably somewhere around K -- and you only need to get up to 'E' to be past the 1/4 mark. (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader? —John D. Forinash
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| | | | (...) It was indeed a little off. I'd worked out 7.4 letters per word based on an even-ish distribution; working on the list from the linux /usr/dict/words shows an average of 8.4 letters per word (after subtracting out the ^Js) for words in nature. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) /usr/dict/words on many linux distributions is terrible. Here's an interesting test: grep herbivore /usr/dict/words grep omnivore /usr/dict/words grep carnivore /usr/dict/words (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader? —John D. Forinash
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| | | | (...) On most anything, actually. It's really not meant to be a dictionary, even though the directory looks like it. Sometimes a random word comes in handy, though. (...) None of them are found in the sloaris /usr/dict/words. :) Besides, in this age (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) The amusing thing on Red Hat Linux is that herbivore and omnivore are there, as are carnivorous and carnivorously, but not carnivorous. (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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