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Re^3: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

by TJPride (Pilgrim)
on Oct 04, 2013 at 22:09 UTC ( [id://1056944]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words
in thread Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

Capitalization may not matter, but dupes do, and there are often multiple versions of the same word. I suppose I could have just lowercased everything and then deduped. The word list is largely irrelevant, though - the important thing is the algorithm.

What do you mean by brute force, exactly? There are far too many possible letter combinations to just check each one.

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Re^4: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 05, 2013 at 00:17 UTC
    TJPride,
    What do you mean by brute force, exactly? There are far too many possible letter combinations to just check each one.

    As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, you don't need to check all 26^8 possibilities since order of letters doesn't matter. That leaves 13_884_156 possible 8 letter combinations. Since I am using a specific dictionary and no word allows a single letter to repeat more than 5 times, I can further reduce that down to 12_461_993. Since my word list contains 40,933 words, that means I am up to 510_106_759_469 checks. In order to finish in under 24 hours, I will need to be able to do 5.9 million checks per second. I hope my C skills are up for the challenge (stay tuned).

    Cheers - L~R

      I am not sure whether my solution is correct, but if it is, it is much faster, because it only checks the possible combinations, not all of them.
      لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ
        choroba,
        I intentionally chose not to review anyone else's code until after mine was finished (20 minutes ago). I peeked at something BrowserUk put up simply because he said it was brute force and then indicated it finished in a few seconds. It is pretty late here but I will check out solutions tomorrow. Feel free to critique mine before then :-D

        Cheers - L~R

      > That leaves 13_884_156 possible 8 letter combinations. Since I am using a specific dictionary and no word allows a single letter to repeat more than 5 times,

      I think pre-investigating the dictionary should dramatically limit this number.

      Just find the real maximum repetition for each letter.

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

        LanX,
        I did that but it didn't reduce it dramatically. As I pointed out elsewhere, that only gets it down to 12_461_993.

        Cheers - L~R

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