Words

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Originally Posted by kerry Farmer

I was not trying to claim the credit!!!

Oh my, I meant that not at all And I apologize if you inferred it. I was merely trying to say feel free (anyone) to distribute in any way "discovered" stuff uncovered by this program. If someone else wants , or feels the need, to take credit for it, well that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. It doesn't hurt me at all, only him.

And if he (you) makes Bill Gates Steve Jobs money doing it, well goood for him. And good for the lawyers John, Paul and I will hire to recover some of it. And good for his defending lawyers too. And good for the world too, benefitting from the new discoveries. Good for PowerBasic when it's known PB was the underlying power that enabled the discoveries. Geez, I really hope you do distribute it, Kerry - the good is unending.{grin} (Have to stop here, all this good karma is just infusing me and upsetting Big Mama's world view.)

I was merely trying to recognise that you may have discovered stuff.

As I age, I find myself "discovering" more stuff almost every day. Memory and all that. {grin}

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My opinion is that they
don't stifle enough of them.
There's many a best-seller that could have been
prevented by a good teacher."
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[John Gleason]

I looked at the data returned by running Paul's code, and now I see where your 45,412 comes from, Gösta. In that data are duplicates--not duplicate pairs, just duplicate words from different matched pairs. So when those dupes are removed... bam! 28819 unique words as my (#71) no-dupe-code post also shows.

That's a tri-match assuming your code produces data that exactly matches Paul's, which makes it a virtual certainty it's correct. You'll have to modify a statistic or few to reflect that only 28819 words form anagrams in that 173,528 word database. Eg. that is just 16.6% of the words rather than 26%.

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Originally Posted by John Gleason

I looked at the data returned by running Paul's code, and now I see where your 45,412 comes from, Gösta. In that data are duplicates--not duplicate pairs, just duplicate words from different matched pairs. So when those dupes are removed... bam! 28819 unique words as my (#71) no-dupe-code post also shows.

That's a tri-match assuming your code produces data that exactly matches Paul's, which makes it a virtual certainty it's correct. You'll have to modify a statistic or few to reflect that only 28819 words form anagrams in that 173,528 word database. Eg. that is just 16.6% of the words rather than 26%.

I'm glad (and comforted) you confirmed that we are in agreement as to the accuracy (not missing any). As for the totals, we are viewing it differently.

ie aborted - tabored you are counting as one.
with tabored - aborted I count it as 2.

It plays out even more in multi word (3 or more) peas - seap - sape which is probably the 1227 dif I noted above.

In any case, I will go with the higher conts in my stats though I will note there are different ways of counting (your 28.000 is still an astounding number as well - whodda thot?).

I'm planning to put up a page with a summary of all this stuff and will include in it the Word-Connection program we collaborated on a few years ago as well.

Neat stuff. Thanks your contribution. I am in awe of the speed of your algo.

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Bare-knuckled a professional boxer,
And been pissed on by a tiger.
Now, what was that you are going to to do to me again?"
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[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

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* 45,412 Anagrams (26%) were found in 173,528 Words *
* 28,819 individual words can form Anagrams (17%) *
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How does that look?

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The things we know best are
the things we haven’t been taught.
Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues
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[John Gleason]

I would probably word it like this:

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There are 12,368 sets of anagrams containing 28,819 unique words out
of a 173,528 word list.

For example, "recrates terraces caterers retraces" is one 4-word anagram set,
where each word within is an anagram of the other three and appears in no
other set.
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But then, I'm not exactly Mr. Documentation Editor.

[John Gleason]

But I did consult with my attorney on that wording.

[Stuart McLachlan]

> peas - seap - sape

You forgot apes

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Good enough for me. Sounds more "professorial" {grin}.

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I was walking through the woods one day,
When I met the wee'ist little elf.
Twas sitting under a mushroom tall
Twas taller than himself.
"How do you do, little Elf Man", I said.
"And what do you do all day?"
In the most playful childlike voice he said
"I dance and scuttle about "
"And pway with butterfwies."
"And when Mr Mole comes fwoo"
"Only just to fwighten him, I jump out and say 'Boo!'"
"And what do you think of that?"
said the gleeful little he.
I said "It makes me sick."
"It gives me sharp and shooting pains to listen to such drool."
And I lifted up my foot and
Squashed that silly little fool.
(Dredged from the muddled maze of a bewildered mind
Original Author Morris Bishop)
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[John Gleason]

The pase of my peas did spae time in the apse, but who apes such a pase? Can anyone spae?

If only I had a nickel for every time I've heard that one...

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Originally Posted by Stuart McLachlan

> peas - seap - sape

You forgot apes

Not to worry, Stu, it's in the list. I just posted that out of my head as an example for that post.

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which is proof against all arguments
and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance
that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
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[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Originally Posted by John Gleason

The pase of my peas did spae time in the apse, but who apes such a pase? Can anyone spae?

If only I had a nickel for every time I've heard that one...

I'd have a nickel. (Poverty appears to be my everlasting fate. {sigh})

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one can make along the road to truth...
not going all the way,
and not starting.”
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
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[Michael Mattias]

I thought watching paint dry was "not exciting".....

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Originally Posted by Michael Mattias

I thought watching paint dry was "not exciting".....

See, now you learned something anew. It's not the paint, it's the artist.

Parsing 12,368 Anagram sets out of 173,528 words took 0.53 seconds.

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"Life is never fair. ...
And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us
that it is not."
Oscar Wilde
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[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

And now ........... I *think* the anagram paint is finally dry http://www.swedesdock.com/Words/Anagrams.txt

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"He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper
but he is more excellent
who can suit his temper to any circumstances."
(David Hume 1711 -)
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[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

The paint is finally dry:
http://www.swedesdock.com/Words/Index.shtml

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I stepped from plank to plank
A slow and cautious way
The Stars about my Head
I felt about my Feet the Sea.

I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch
This gave me that precarious Gait
Some call Experience.
Emily Dickensen
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