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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