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    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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