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Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:32:11 GMT
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In article <slrn9dbo1a.4g3.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu>,
Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> 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.
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. Or at least words in /usr/dict/words.
-JDF
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The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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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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