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Re: The magical number seven

Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: The magical number seven
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From Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
Organization nocrew
Date 2014-10-21 08:56 +0200
Message-ID <85siihdi6g.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (permalink)

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mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) writes:
> -DIGIT \ 27 words
> NUMBER \ 53 words
> WORD   \ 48 words
> QUIT   \ 14 words
> BAUD   \ 17 words
> SPACES \ 13 words 
> M/MOD  \ 10 words
> FILL   \ 15 words
> SCAN   \ 12 words
> THRU   \ 12 words
> ]      \ 46 words
> @      \ 11 words ( optimized)
> ( here I stopped )

There are many shorter words.  I get an average of 8.7.

Histogram:

 1 ******************
 2 *****************************
 3 *********************
 4 ********************
 5 ************
 6 ****************
 7 ***********
 8 **********
 9 *****
10 *******
11 ***
12 ***
13 **
14 *
15 *****
16 **
17 **
18 *
19 **
20 **
21 **
22 *
23 *
24 **
25 *
27 *
29 *
30 *
32 *
34 *
38 *
43 **
47 *
60 **
67 *

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Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 18:15 +0200
  Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 18:18 +0200
    Re: Tiny regular expressions code Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 09:32 -0700
    Re: Tiny regular expressions code Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-13 11:18 -0700
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        Re: Tiny regular expressions code Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-13 11:53 -0700
  Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 22:14 +0200
  Re: Tiny regular expressions code mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2014-10-13 22:59 +0200
    Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-13 23:11 +0200
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    Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 17:43 +0200
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      Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-17 19:20 +0200
        Re: Tiny regular expressions code anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-10-18 15:43 +0000
          Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 18:53 +0200
          Re: Tiny regular expressions code hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-10-18 19:19 -0700
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                Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-20 00:17 +0200
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                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2014-10-20 20:19 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-10-21 08:56 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-21 11:44 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Just Ian <superian@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 07:06 -0700
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                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:27 -0500
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                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-10-20 16:25 +0000
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-10-20 16:36 -0400
                Re: The magical number seven "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-10-20 12:19 -1000
                Re: The magical number seven "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-10-21 01:47 -0400
                Re: The magical number seven "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-10-20 20:31 -1000
                Re: The magical number seven albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-10-21 09:06 +0000
                Re: The magical number seven "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-10-21 08:47 -1000
                Re: The magical number seven "Rod Pemberton" <buzzoff@nonamewhichexists.cmm> - 2014-10-22 02:21 -0400
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 10:29 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-10-21 11:34 +0200
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:41 -0500
                Re: The magical number seven Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-26 12:07 +0100
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 13:58 -0500
                Re: The magical number seven (was: Tiny regular expressions code) hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-10-20 16:34 -0700
                Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:33 -0500
                Re: The magical number seven Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-26 12:12 +0100
              Re: The magical number seven Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-10-26 04:24 -0500
          Re: Tiny regular expressions code mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2014-10-19 17:10 +0200
      Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 16:02 +0200
        Re: Tiny regular expressions code josv@planet.nl - 2014-10-18 07:50 -0700
  Re: Tiny regular expressions code Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-10-18 17:27 +0200
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