Talk:Word frequency: Difference between revisions

 
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"The n most common words" is only meaningful where there are exactly n words with the highest numbers of instances. --[[User:Nig|Nig]] ([[User talk:Nig|talk]]) 10:06, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 
: I take it to mean   ''the N (top-most) common words''.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 10:23, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 
:: But when the nth most common word ties with others such that there's a choice of more than n qualifying words, either more than n have to be returned or some have to be arbitrarily left out. --[[User:Nig|Nig]] ([[User talk:Nig|talk]]) 10:41, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 
==Using Microsoft Word 2010 to count words==
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