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...
My supercomputer run to search for 11-squares didn't find any. I guess if there are any to be had, it'll need more than just an incremental increase from a...
Too bad that there is no 11-square. For my 8x9 french grid, I had to use several dictionaries, since the official one (ODS4) was not sufficient. BTW, amongst...
Hello everybody. First of all I would like to thank everyone who helped me in the task of finding a way to index a list of words according to their frequency,...
Hi! - yes, indeed I wrote the code (and it's open source so you're welcome to have a good look at it) It is meant to be exhaustive but I wouldn't rule out the...
... In France, this game is called Jarnac http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarnac_(jeu) (Pun with Jarnac = j'arnaque). Several years ago, there was a site to play...
... As if you need to ask :-) Totally untested as I've never played the game, just written code for it :-/ (I.e. the code does what I intended it to do, but...
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I'm composing a puzzle for an upcoming treasure hunt which will be a 6x7 (I hope) grid containing six specific 12-letter words. I *almost* managed to squeeze...
Graham, Thanks, but this doesn't seem to have a solution to quite the problem I'm trying to solve. But that's okay, it'll be interesting to write one myself. ...
... If the word list is completely known in advance, then it cries out as a problem where you would want to solve it for *all* words in your wordlist at once. ...
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