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Response to Gerard's reply to say anomaly now identified and fixed.
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: Yes, a difference in the spelling either the number (the length of a word), or the ordinal number (of the location of the word) may be the cause of the difference. I'll re-run a modified version of the (REXX) program and post the first <strike>'''2,100 or so'''</strike> '''2,202''' words of the never-ending sentence at the talk page of that Rosetta Code task; hopefully, we should be able to visually determine the difference(s). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:21, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
:: Thanks Gerard. After studying your print-out I've realized what the problem was, namely a simple misunderstanding on my part. I was thinking previously that the 'sentence' was all words up to and including the 'N'th but, of course, it's all words up to and including the next comma if the 'N'th word doesn't end with a comma. In the case of the 201st and 2,202nd words it just so happened that those words did end with a copy and so our sentence lengths were in agreement.
:: Anyway, it was easy to fix and our two entries are now in total agreement. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 00:05, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
Incidentally, I've altered the preamble to the Kotlin entry now that you've made sentence length part of the task for all values of N.
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