Naked Scientists Word Count

NakedScientist · « **on:** 07/11/2003 18:13:07 »

According to our latest site stats, The Naked Scientists website including this forum) now contains over half a million words ! That's up by 400,000 since this time last year !

TNS

Ylide · « **Reply #1 on:** 07/11/2003 21:01:12 »

Now for a fun programming exercise...write a script that figures not the total number of words, but the total number of UNIQUE words.

Congratulations, though. You have a terrific website, there are some fine people that contribute here.

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tweener · « **Reply #2 on:** 09/11/2003 03:33:58 »

Actually, I wrote a program last year that generates a list of unique words and the number of occurrences of each. I might even be able to find it if I were to look.

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Quantumcat · « **Reply #3 on:** 12/11/2003 07:56:23 »

Wow, that's a good idea. How interesting would that be ... haha.

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heythere · « **Reply #4 on:** 26/11/2003 23:04:45 »

"Actually, I wrote a program last year that generates a list of unique words and the number of occurrences of each" ROFL!
If it is unique then it only occurs once...heh

chris · « **Reply #5 on:** 27/11/2003 00:30:06 »

Well spotted heythere - I'm normally quicker than that and I'd have had him for that one !

Hyped-up lines in the media like "very unique" really make me cringe. Am I becoming a boring old fart ?!

(someone will now say...what do you mean "becoming" ? !) [

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Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx

roberth · « **Reply #6 on:** 27/11/2003 02:49:38 »

What do you mean "old" ?!

chris · « **Reply #7 on:** 27/11/2003 10:52:16 »

The stress of keeping life, sole and the naked scientists together is making me old before my time !

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx

roberth · « **Reply #8 on:** 27/11/2003 22:35:26 »

Is that your shoes you are having problems with? I find if I have them professionally resoled, they're OK. Don't you have shoe repair places in England?

Donnah · « **Reply #9 on:** 27/11/2003 23:18:49 »

Roberth, sounds fishy to me.[

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chris · « **Reply #10 on:** 27/11/2003 23:20:07 »

oops - hoisted by my own petard there [

] well spotted !

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx

tweener · « **Reply #11 on:** 30/11/2003 02:20:14 »

And you are giving me guff for my *almost* correct use of the word unique, Chris.

I never did find that program. And I looked for almost two minutes!

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Donnah · « **Reply #12 on:** 01/12/2003 19:48:46 »

quote:
Originally posted by chris

oops - hoisted by my own petard there [] well spotted !

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx

Why hoisted? Shouldn't it be more like blown up by my own petard?

Exodus · « **Reply #13 on:** 02/07/2004 06:56:08 »

quote:
Originally posted by tweener

And you are giving me guff for my *almost* correct use of the word unique, Chris.

I never did find that program. And I looked for almost two minutes!

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John

I wouldn't ask Chris to give you a guff!!! you'll probably get more than you bargained for!!!

neilep · « **Reply #14 on:** 02/07/2004 18:01:55 »

quote:
Originally posted by NakedScientist

According to our latest site stats, The Naked Scientists website including this forum) now contains over half a million words ! That's up by 400,000 since this time last year !

TNS

How about another wordcount ?

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Exodus · « **Reply #15 on:** 06/07/2004 01:49:43 »

i asked christopher to do that yesterday...

chris · « **Reply #16 on:** 07/07/2004 06:36:33 »

The word count is now about 650,000.

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx

neilep · « **Reply #17 on:** 07/07/2004 10:10:57 »

....Chris....great respect to you for staying up so late to count them all ![

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'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

Exodus · « **Reply #18 on:** 08/07/2004 01:50:28 »

Thats quite an amazing increase!

OmnipotentOne · « **Reply #19 on:** 21/08/2004 17:13:42 »

i wonder who was the first person to to put together the dictionary, now THAT must have been borring!

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