On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Geoff Hutchison wrote:


for the maximum number of words in a document. But 2^24 gives us a good 16-million words, which is good enough for War and Peace. (I'm checking at the moment.)

Well, we might get by on less than that:
(These are the Project Gutenberg etext editions of _War and Peace_ and the King James Bible.)


localhost: ghutchis% wc wrnpc10.txt
   67337  566237 3282452 wrnpc10.txt
localhost: ghutchis% wc bible11.txt
  114385  822894 4959549 bible11.txt

So I'd guess that 2^20 should be more than enough words. Or does someone have a nice long document to prove me wrong?

-Geoff



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