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Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:04:43 GMT
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J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 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
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.
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Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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 | | Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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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?
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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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