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Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:55:35 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.STOPSPAMMERSorg
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J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 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.
/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
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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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| (...) 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?
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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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