[NakedScientist (OP)]

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]

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]

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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John

[Quantumcat]

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

Am I dead? Am I alive? I'm both!

[heythere]

"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]

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" ? !) []

Chris

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

[roberth]

What do you mean "old" ?!

[chris]

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]

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]

Roberth, sounds fishy to me.[]

[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

[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

[Donnah]

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]

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]

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 ?

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

[Exodus]

i asked christopher to do that yesterday...

[chris]

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]

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

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

[Exodus]

Thats quite an amazing increase!

[OmnipotentOne]

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

To see a world in a grain of sand.