Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:30:07 -0500
Reply-To: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject: Re: OT: Chance to Make SAS-L History: Did You Know That...
Bill,
What a nice feeling to know that someone is concerned! Maybe Joe will
offer free psychological consultations?
Anyhow, the number didn't sound right, so I rechecked the log. While the
number of unique words was correct, the number of words was actually the
number of lines of text. In fact, there were 10,337,694 words, or enough
to fill just under 130 books.
Art
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:46:02 -0800, William W. Viergever
<william@VIERGEVER.NET> wrote:
>At 06:18 PM 1/12/2007, Arthur Tabachneck wrote:
>>Did you know that (some more trivia from the unofficial analysis of the
>>2006 SAS-L posts): there were more words posted on SAS-L, last year, than
>>typically found in over 22 non-fiction books combined.
>>
>>The average nonfiction book is about 200 pages in typeset, published
form,
>>with approximately 400 words a page. That's 80,000 words.
>>
>>Well, the 2006 SAS-L posts had 1,829,612 words (not counting the various
>>header lines like subject, from, reply-to, etc.) or just shy of 23 books.
>>
>>And, of the 1,829,612 words, there were 333,563 unique words, or more
than
>>4 times as many as can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (thanks
>>Toby!!!; the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary ONLY
contains
>>full entries for 171,476 unique words).
>>
>>Art
>
>
>art:
>
>i'm really, really worried about you
>
>:-)
>
>have a great weekend; hopefully, away from your PC
>
>peace-out
>
>
>
>
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