Talk:Word frequency: Difference between revisions
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:FWIW, The article cited is not free on the ACM website, but it is free from the Princeton CS (Donald Knuth) site. Just type "Programming pearls: a literate program" into Google and press "I'm feeling lucky".
:Also, that UNIX shell script example is already on the task page. It was one of the first ones added. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 17:41, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
::Thanks for the reference. The Unix example on the page does not acknowledge that it is McIlroy's solution. Reading Knuth's version it is clear that it would also have given 41089 as the answer. My point is that the task description relies on these two articles, both of which return 41089 as the answer when applied to the mandated test input, and examples in Clojure and Python which both give 41306 as the answer. I think that the answer should be 41088. This can be explained:
:::The Python and Clojure examples are wrong;
:::The references were never designed to be run using Unicode, which apparently traces it's origins to 1987, but I don't think was widely used before the late 90's.
:::The task author has never run the cited references using the mandated input.
::The original author does not seem to be taking any further interest in this task. Perhaps you would like to update the description and mark the Clojure and Python examples as wrong to resolve this.--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 13:41, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
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