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Word 1000000 is "the", with 3 letters. Length of sentence so far:7235383
Word 10000000 is "thousand,", with 8 letters. Length of sentence so far:72079160
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=={{header|Python}}==
<lang Python>
# Python implementation of Rosetta Code Task
# http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Four_is_the_number_of_letters_in_the_...
# Uses inflect
# https://pypi.org/project/inflect/
import inflect
def count_letters(word):
"""
count letters ignore , or -, or space
"""
count = 0
for letter in word:
if letter != ',' and letter !='-' and letter !=' ':
count += 1
return count
def split_with_spaces(sentence):
"""
Takes string with partial sentence and returns
list of words with spaces included.
Leading space is attached to first word.
Later spaces attached to prior word.
"""
sentence_list = []
curr_word = ""
for c in sentence:
if c == " " and curr_word != "":
# append space to end of non-empty words
# assumed no more than 1 consecutive space.
sentence_list.append(curr_word+" ")
curr_word = ""
else:
curr_word += c
# add trailing word that does not end with a space
if len(curr_word) > 0:
sentence_list.append(curr_word)
return sentence_list
def my_num_to_words(p, my_number):
"""
Front end to inflect's number_to_words
Get's rid of ands and commas in large numbers.
"""
number_string_list = p.number_to_words(my_number, wantlist=True, andword='')
number_string = number_string_list[0]
for i in range(1,len(number_string_list)):
number_string += " " + number_string_list[i]
return number_string
def build_sentence(p, max_words):
"""
Builds at most max_words of the task following the pattern:
Four is the number of letters in the first word of this sentence, two in the second,
three in the third, six in the fourth, two in the fifth, seven in the sixth,
"""
# start with first part of sentence up first comma as a list
sentence_list = split_with_spaces("Four is the number of letters in the first word of this sentence,")
num_words = 13
# which word number we are doing next
# two/second is first one in loop
word_number = 2
# loop until sentance is at least as long as needs be
while num_words < max_words:
# Build something like
# ,two in the second
# get second or whatever we are on
ordinal_string = my_num_to_words(p, p.ordinal(word_number))
# get two or whatever the length is of the word_number word
word_number_string = my_num_to_words(p, count_letters(sentence_list[word_number - 1]))
# sentence addition
new_string = " "+word_number_string+" in the "+ordinal_string+","
new_list = split_with_spaces(new_string)
sentence_list += new_list
# add new word count
num_words += len(new_list)
# increment word number
word_number += 1
return sentence_list, num_words
def word_and_counts(word_num):
"""
Print's lines like this:
Word 1000 is "in", with 2 letters. Length of sentence so far: 6279
"""
sentence_list, num_words = build_sentence(p, word_num)
word_str = sentence_list[word_num - 1].strip(' ,')
num_letters = len(word_str)
num_characters = 0
for word in sentence_list:
num_characters += len(word)
print('Word {0:8d} is "{1}", with {2} letters. Length of the sentence so far: {3} '.format(word_num,word_str,num_letters,num_characters))
p = inflect.engine()
sentence_list, num_words = build_sentence(p, 201)
print(" ")
print("The lengths of the first 201 words are:")
print(" ")
print('{0:3d}: '.format(1),end='')
total_characters = 0
for word_index in range(201):
word_length = count_letters(sentence_list[word_index])
total_characters += len(sentence_list[word_index])
print('{0:2d}'.format(word_length),end='')
if (word_index+1) % 20 == 0:
# newline every 20
print(" ")
print('{0:3d}: '.format(word_index + 2),end='')
else:
print(" ",end='')
print(" ")
print(" ")
print("Length of the sentence so far: "+str(total_characters))
print(" ")
"""
Expected output this part:
Word 1000 is "in", with 2 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 6279
Word 10000 is "in", with 2 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 64140
Word 100000 is "one", with 3 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 659474
Word 1000000 is "the", with 3 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 7113621
Word 10000000 is "thousand", with 8 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 70995756
"""
word_and_counts(1000)
word_and_counts(10000)
word_and_counts(100000)
word_and_counts(1000000)
word_and_counts(10000000)
</lang>
Output:
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The lengths of the first 201 words are:
1: 4 2 3 6 2 7 2 3 5 4 2 4 8 3 2 3 6 5 2 3
21: 5 3 2 3 6 3 2 3 5 5 2 3 5 3 2 3 7 5 2 3
41: 6 4 2 3 5 4 2 3 5 3 2 3 8 4 2 3 7 5 2 3
61: 10 5 2 3 10 3 2 3 9 5 2 3 9 3 2 3 11 4 2 3
81: 10 3 2 3 10 5 2 3 9 4 2 3 11 5 2 3 12 3 2 3
101: 11 5 2 3 12 3 2 3 11 5 2 3 11 3 2 3 13 5 2 3
121: 12 4 2 3 11 4 2 3 9 3 2 3 11 5 2 3 12 4 2 3
141: 11 5 2 3 12 3 2 3 11 5 2 3 11 5 2 3 13 4 2 3
161: 12 3 2 3 11 5 2 3 8 3 2 3 10 4 2 3 11 3 2 3
181: 10 5 2 3 11 4 2 3 10 4 2 3 10 3 2 3 12 5 2 3
201: 11
Length of the sentence so far: 1203
Word 1000 is "in", with 2 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 6279
Word 10000 is "in", with 2 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 64140
Word 100000 is "one", with 3 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 659474
Word 1000000 is "the", with 3 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 7113621
Word 10000000 is "thousand", with 8 letters. Length of the sentence so far: 70995756
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