> has an entry for every word it uses That is actually a really interesting challenge: to have a completely self-contained dictionary. Especially in 1963, befo

> has an entry for every word it uses That is actually a really interesting challenge: to have a completely self-contained dictionary. Especially in 1963, before modern automation, the proofreading required must have been a Herculean task. Perhaps this could be some kind of measure for answering this question in and of itself: what is the smallest useful self-contained natural language dictionary that one can write? EDIT: Oh, fginionio came up with an intuitive approach to do this automatically below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19332041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19332041