Talk:Textonyms

Needs specifics

I think this task is good except that it needs something specific to show to help verify and show how to use the functions we program. Maybe something like "show the number of keypad combinations that map to 10 words and show what other words have the same keypad combination as 'CAT'". Just something to sync the examples up. --Mwn3d (talk) 14:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

I have updated the task dexcription to include specific output--Nigel Galloway (talk) 14:28, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Example word list incomplete

It ends in the middle of "P". --Ledrug (talk) 19:48, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Example word list has 'odd' words

I calculated the number having the most words and got:

27: ['ap', 'aq', 'ar', 'as', 'ar', 'as', 'bp', 'br', 'bs', 'br', 'cp', 'cq', 'cr', 'cr', 'cs']

Those 'words' seem random to me.

I suggest we use the word list from task Ordered words i.e. this dictionary although words with non a-zA-Z chars in them such as 10th will have to be rejected. --Paddy3118 (talk) 07:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Changing the wordlist gives me these stats:

Read 25104 words from 'http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/unixdict.txt'
Number of words after rejecting those that have characters other than a-zA-Z in them is 24978
Those words are represented by 22903 numbers

The numbers mapping to the most words map to 9 words each:
[('269', ['amy', 'any', 'bmw', 'bow', 'box', 'boy', 'cow', 'cox', 'coy']),
 ('729', ['paw', 'pax', 'pay', 'paz', 'raw', 'ray', 'saw', 'sax', 'say'])]

--Paddy3118 (talk) 07:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

The code should work with any text list. I don't mind if the specific list isn't critical to the task. The advantage of the one I am proposing is that it includes names (i.e. Nigel and Paddy). The Perl entry has a wildcard feature that could be foreseeing 7733428483 8398. You may want a version which allows numbers. 2748424767 -> "Briticisms", "criticisms".--Nigel Galloway (talk) 15:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

What does "mapping" mean here?

(Obviously we are not talking about geography.)

The usual use of the word "mapping" in the context of programs is a reference to the process of using what a routine named "map" such as has been implemented in a variety of lisps (or javascript or perl or ruby or numerous other languages). In other words, it's talking about transforming some argument to some result. In other words, it's basically just a name for a function.

But I am having trouble making sense of that here, because there is not "textonym function" which is different from the identify function. We have words, we are looking for words that contain textonyms, but those words are not the result of some function, unless that function is a function which does absolutely nothing.

So... unless there is some useful meaning being conveyed here (and there might be? =), the word "mapping" is just gibberish. If it's meaningless, could we just remove it from the task description? Alternatively, if it's meaningful, I would benefit from knowing its definition.

(And I do see a reference to keyboard mapping - but is that the same thing as a textonym mapping??) --Rdm (talk) 01:37, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

I see maps! If a map forms a relationship between keys and value, (the common hashmap goes further and tells something of the implementation), then there is a mapping between individual digits and several characters from the alphabet, and we are asked to construct a mapping between digit strings and words from a dictionary that can be expressed in that alphabet.

--Paddy3118 (talk) 09:22, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

I hope labelling the table as digit key mapping and referring to it throughout as digit key mapping makes the meaning 100% clear.--Nigel Galloway (talk) 14:41, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

If it is the key mapping we are talking about in this context, shouldn't the report say "key mapping" instead of "textonym mapping"? --Rdm (talk) 14:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Correct number of Textonyms in unixdict.txt

The Go and Python examples disagree on the number of Textonyms in the unixdict.txt file. The former claims 1473 while the later claims 22895. Which (if either) is correct?

(The Go and J examples agree on 661 Textonyms in the Textonyms/wordlist; the other other examples don't give any other values).

—dchapes (talk | contribs) 23:33, 8 February 2015 (UTC)