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26^6=308,915,776 36^6=2,176,782,336 Approximate number of words in English: 171,476
by kordlessagain 7y ago
26^6=308,915,776
36^6=2,176,782,336
Approximate number of words in English: 171,476
- reaperducer 7y agoAre you under the impression that English is the only language with offensive words?
- 013a 7y agoAre you under the impression that there aren't many, many services which only serve english-speaking populaces, by design, or that even including the offensive words in every language would come close to significantly impacting the entropy involved here?
- viraptor 7y agoOr that people won't try to find something offensive in a random string... I had a reg plate containing FY...BLX. A friend commented that it spells "fuck you blacks" - didn't even think of reading it like that for years.
- hinkley 7y agoEvery number substitution for a letter doubles the number of words in the language. Every vowel elimination doubles them again. The internet won't tell me the average number of vowels per word, but lets assume it's 2^3, so you're over a million. Not every word has an A->4 substitution, or a t->7 or an e->, so it's not 2^10th but let's say perhaps another factor of 16. Do you remember those FCUK shirts? Letter transposition is probably another doubling, maybe quadrupling. Bringing the total to at least 171,476,000 'words'. And while that's only 6% of the space, now you have to deal with 171 million blacklist entries. That's a bit of a problem.