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In theory, if you have a folder with every files that have every two-letter combination at the start, there will be 650 files with distinct letters and only 26
by AlienRobot 3y ago
In theory, if you have a folder with every files that have every two-letter combination at the start, there will be 650 files with distinct letters and only 26 files that have the same first letter and same second letter.
In practice, the amount of actual words that have the same first letter as the second letter is minuscule. Even words that have the same letter appearing twice in sequence.
It's just optimized for the most convenient scenario.
- jodrellblank 3y ago> "In practice, the amount of actual words that have the same first letter as the second letter is minuscule." In the enable1.txt wordlist of 172,823 English words, there are 126 starting with a double letter, and those are largely the variations of oohs, aahs, oomphs, oozes, aardvarks, eels, eerinesses, and oodles of oocytes, oolites, oophytes and oologists near oomiaks.