Talk:Word frequency: Difference between revisions
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::::The task defines a word as a sequence of contiguous letters (as in McIlroy's solution) without defining what a letter is. How about leaving it up to the sample writer what a letter is? Samples could then use the Unicode definition or the ASCII definition (or even some other character set) as convenient? --[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 18:09, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
:::::One could for a laugh but not seriously. For a laugh I asked MS Word to open the mandated input using US-ASCII. It then thinks the book is Les MisC)rables. Knuth defined the task assuming it was going to read US-ASCII, and clearly defines what a letter is in that context. It makes no sense to write a task for US-ASCII (e.g. Unix on the task page) and then run it on an example in UTF-8. Obviously an alternative is to mandate an example written in US-ASCII--[[User:Nigel Galloway|Nigel Galloway]] ([[User talk:Nigel Galloway|talk]]) 10:32, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
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