Talk:Find words which contain the most consonants: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 03:52, 27 July 2022
, 1 year ago→but each consonant should appear only once in a word
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::A couple of ambiguities I think. "the most consonants" – are we listing only words which contain the largest observed set of unique consonants ? The maximum observed cardinality of such a set is 9. How then, does this description lead us to listing words with consonant sets of cardinality 8 ? A bit unclear, and submissions diverge.
::Part of the problem, I think, is that over-familiarity with the language and style of task descriptions in the rest of the Calmosoft task corpus tends to undermine confidence about the intention of "should appear only once
:: Largest '''set''' of consonants (no repetitions contribute to the cardinality of the set) + '''additionally''' no words containing any consonant repetitions are of interest, regardless of the size of their set of consonants ? Probably, but it could do with a bit of tidying, to resolve uncertainty about whether "'''in a word'''" refers to the set of consonants used in that word, or to the list of characters in that word.
:: The Phix output prefix captures it well – "Most consonant words" could label a number of quite different sets. [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 03:50, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
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