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Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word.

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On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:55:52 -0700, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 31 May 2012 11:34:23 -0700, Daniel Pitts
><newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly
>quoted someone who said :
>
>>The problem is that some words are false positives.  They seem ambiguous 
>>for the most part, but one letter absolutely gives it away.
>
>This is a messy problem. For every guessing strategy you need a
>different algorithm to determine difficulty. But if you have enough
>algorithms that each say produce a number 0..1 you can take the max as
>the guessability or the sum, or something in between that gives extra
>weight to high components (sum of cubes?)

     Suppose someone games your choice of algorithms by choosing words
to give bad results by those algorithms.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-05-31 09:26 -0700
  Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-31 09:44 -0700
  Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-31 10:43 -0700
    Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-05-31 11:34 -0700
      Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-01 02:55 -0700
        Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-01 09:34 -0700
          Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-01 11:58 -0700
            Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-01 12:46 -0700
          Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-01 12:45 -0700
            Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-01 13:46 -0700

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