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Duplicate task

This task is a less sophisticated version of https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Text_completion. --Chunes (talk) 01:07, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Could you expand on what/how it is a duplicate? Normally we try to not have "duplicate" tasks on RC. --Paddy3118 (talk) 13:51, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Misspelling?

Two of the best online dictionaries, Collins, and Merriam-Webster don't have changeable without the first e. They do however have it with the e here and here. Several other sites rank "changable" as a common misspelling. Lets not perpetuate that on RC.

Since the spelling is made a point of, we should stick with the preferred spelling in the task name and description. --Paddy3118 (talk) 08:57, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

P.S. The misspelling isn't in unixdict.txt either. --Paddy3118 (talk) 09:06, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Varying answers

Does that wordlist change? There are answers with 52, 54 and others with far less than 50 word pairs found? --Paddy3118 (talk) 12:13, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

One reason is that at least one of the computer programming entries (Python) used a minimum length of 11 instead of 12. (With a minimum length of 11, there are 108 changeable words.) -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 13:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

This is one reason that I suggested (elsewhere) that a summary count be provided at the end of the list to save people counting up the words in the output. Also suggested was to have a count of words found in the dictionary (and which dictionary is being used, i.e., the filename of the dictionary). My points were not well received. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 13:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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 Does that wordlist change? There are answers with 52, 54 and others with far less than 50 word pairs found? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 12:13, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
-: One reason is that at least one of the computer programming entries (''Python'') used a minimum length of &nbsp; '''11''' &nbsp; instead of &nbsp; '''12'''. &nbsp; &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 13:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
+: One reason is that at least one of the computer programming entries (''Python'') used a minimum length of &nbsp; '''11''' &nbsp; instead of &nbsp; '''12'''. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (With a minimum length of '''11''', &nbsp; there are 108 changeable words.) &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 13:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 : This is one reason that I suggested (elsewhere) that a summary count be provided at the end of the list to save people counting up the words in the output. &nbsp; Also suggested was to have a count of words found in the dictionary &nbsp; (and which dictionary is being used, i.e., the filename of the dictionary).  &nbsp; My points were not well received. &nbsp; &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 13:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)