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| From | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. |
| Date | 2012-06-01 02:55 -0700 |
| Organization | Canadian Mind Products |
| Message-ID | <q34hs7l2mer6nrmuhvh1e8b0729b8fgfje@4ax.com> (permalink) |
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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?) -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. ~ Brian W. Kernighan 1942-01-01 .
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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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