Talk:Changeable words

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)

I had read '>11' as '>=11' in the Python entry and now get 26 words from swapping one char for another and 6 words from removing a char as another interpretation of changing a char in a word. Thanks.

The task specifies the directory (which I downloaded). I provide counts, but I agree that the task might suggest that solutions do so, (as others do too).

--Paddy3118 (talk) 14:28, 15 December 2020 (UTC)