Self-referential language counting (I learned another word today bringing my total to fourteen words and twenty letters)

Eve, Martin Paul Self-referential language counting (I learned another word today bringing my total to fourteen words and twenty letters). eve.gd ,

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Abstract

A recent XKCD caused some amusement: “Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to twelve”. We wondered whether there might be possible formulations of this joke that also contained the unique character count, so I wrote the following python script.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User:	Martin Eve
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2024 12:29
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2024 12:29
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52889

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