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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:33:04 +1000
Subject: Re: Comparing strings from the back?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> comparing every pair in a sample of 1000 8-char words
> taken from '/usr/share/dict/words'
>
> head
> 1: 477222 ************************************************************
> 2:  18870 **
> ...

Not understanding this. What are the statistics, and what (if it's not
obvious from the previous answer) do they prove?

ChrisA