in reply to Re^2: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words
in thread Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words
You are right, because I check against all 8 character words and 'aaaaaa' only has six and therefore it is not considered. To be absolutely certain one would have to check against all combinations of 8 characters, i.e. checking your whole dictionary against each of 208 827 064 576 combinations.
So my solution answers the question with one extra condition: that the 8 characters together form a word too.
And I seem to have an "off by one error" somewhere.
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