Talk:Find words which contain the most consonants: Difference between revisions
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, 1 year ago→"words with the most consonants" includes words with a consonant set of less than maximum cardinality ?
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:That does not make any sense to me. How does a word such as "crystallography" ''not'' have repeated r,y,l? --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 21:52, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
::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" and "in a word". That phrase is the only indication that "most consonants" does not mean "maximum string length after vowel deletion". Are we sure that it was intended to carry '''double''' weight ?
:: 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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