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War and Peace is about 590,000 words. Tiny compared to the full Harry Potter collection (about 1 million words over the 7 books), but long for a single book.
by iso1631 5mo ago
War and Peace is about 590,000 words. Tiny compared to the full Harry Potter collection (about 1 million words over the 7 books), but long for a single book.
- perching_aix 5mo agoThey're referring to the typo in the title, "Piece" vs "Peace". I also thought they were contending the word count before noticing. Even remarked how I find this a weird metric, given that code is not prose [0], but then I deleted that once I picked up on what's going on. [0] comparing the output of `wc -w` with the word counts of books I'm reasonably sure will be super off edit: ran a calc, substituting out symbols (but not underscores), digits, and comments yields a 390K word count compared to the 660K cited. not excluding the comments yields 600K, so more than a third of all words in the sources are comments.
- iso1631 5mo agoahh interesting thanks I guess it's related to the phenomenon where you can read words relatively easily as long as the first and last letters are correct and the rest of the letters are there. https://wire.insiderfinance.io/the-brains-power-to-read-jumbled-text-adfbd0ae3c28 https://wire.insiderfinance.io/the-brains-power-to-read-jumb...
- Accacin 5mo agoThe ten main Malazan books are 3.3 million words, apparently. No wonder it took me such a long time to get through them.