Re^5: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

> 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)

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Re^6: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 05, 2013 at 02:38 UTC
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	[reply]
Re^7: Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words by LanX (Saint) on Oct 05, 2013 at 14:51 UTC
Yeah I agree about 12_461_993 Anyway you don't need to check against all words in the dictionary, only taking the (at most) 256 subsets of a potential 8 letter combination. (less if letters are repeated) This can be done in a lookup in a prepared count-hash with normalized keys. Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]