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I dare not change your program.
I dare not change your program.


: The misspelling wasn't in the program, but the REXX language entry section header.   -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 23:06, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
: I had programmed the REXX example to expect a lexicographical ordered word list. I corrected the error. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 06:42, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
: I had programmed the REXX example to expect a lexicographical ordered word list. I corrected the error. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 06:42, 14 July 2012 (UTC)


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I don't like to use words like ''mere'' which preloads a judgement.
I don't like to use words like ''mere'' which preloads a judgement.
30% of an 20 hour run is an extra ¼ day (this would be in regards to that 82 million record "database").
30% of an 20 hour run is an extra &nbsp; <sup>'''1</sup>/<sub>4'''</sub> &nbsp; day (this would be in regards to that 82 million record "database").


I took your program ''as is'' and ran it on my isolated computer (no internet connection, no active anti-virus protection programs running, etc, it's a 3.20 GHz box and is running all four processors with five 100%-CPU-bound unrelated programs on below-normal priority), and the results are:
I took your program ''as is'' and ran it on my isolated computer (no internet connection, no active anti-virus protection programs running, etc, it's a 3.20 GHz box and is running all four processors with five 100%-CPU-bound unrelated programs on below-normal priority), and the results are: