[Reply CC'd to wordgame-programmers] ... Glad I was able to help, but you know programmers, we love to dot the I's and cross the T's. It'll be interesting to...
... unfortunately that article says that the maths is explained in "Scrabble Players News, No 67, May 1986" - which I don't think is online. Can anyone get us...
... Have you just counted the number of words that can be formed? Because you've listed some twice where letters are duplicated (e.g. ARISTAE on the top row.) ...
Well, OK, it's not Christmas, but it feels like it :-) As part of my work I've been given access to an array of 64bit X86 computers (4996 CPUs total, I can use...
... (pausing to wipe drool) I asked Jason Katz-Brown the other day when he was going to add support for massively parallel environments to Quackle and he said...
... Scrabble was my first thought too, but the problem is that this isn't an interactive service and it really would be a major hassle to hook up a scrabble...
... http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/wordsquare/partial-tensquare-results.txt The run aborted after 2 minutes - a bit of an anti-climax! More to follow... G...
... (That turned out to be due to the checkpointing code that was invoked using the unix ALRM signal. Turns out to be too hairy, I've taken it out) Things are...
How about using a *smaller* list of words to try to generate something that actually looks like a ten-square, rather than looking like someone was just...
... Because we ran the tensquare program to exhaustion some years ago on all the English words we could find and there weren't any valid squares. Read the old...
... compresses overexpose meristelic* pristrcene* restrainer extravenen* speciesism solennisee* esineeseen* secernment# This was the only one of Graham's...
... Pointers? His web site just seems to cover his erotic novel writing, and I can't find it at puzzlers.org (although their 'online dictionaries' wiki page...
Q: If a list of approx 600K words of 10 letters generates around 55000 traditional word squares, how many word squares should I expect to find using a list of...
It took three runs to complete - each run would take off from where the previous run finished - and it took approximately 20 hours real time running on 512...
I did some analysis on a large corpus in french: http://www.lexique.org/public/corpatext.php This corpus has 37 millions of words, and weighs 200 megabytes. I...
... That sure would be an amazing coincidence! With TRAD10-results.txt, checking with French or English tile distributions shows that at best you'd need to...
Hello everyone. I need to sort a word list by the popularity of each one of its words. The problem would be trivial if each word was labeled with its ...
In the first paragraph I wrote "probability". I meant "popularity", of course. Also, I forgot signing the message. My apologies. My name is Cristian Richart. ...
Hello again. Please excuse me if this message is a bit of topic here. Is there any Yahoo Group e-mail list about Quackle? About my question, I would like to...
... My first inclination would be to get my hands on an English text corpus and do a word count over it - the "popularity" of a word is related to its word ...
... In french, the biggest corpus is CorpaText: http://www.lexique.org/public/corpatext.php It's simply an aggregation of 2700 public ebooks. Project Gutenberg...
... The British National Corpus (bnc) is freely available. I have a list of words and frequencies at this url: http://www.gtoal.com/dicts/bnc Also the MRC...
Hello to everyone, and thanks for the help. Had I imagined the answer would be dependant on the language the words belong to, I would have clarified the words...
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