Talk:Jewels and stones

task description?

The task could do with a description on RC. If you don't have permission, please don't just copy another sites description.

Thanks. --Paddy3118 (talk) 12:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. Jewels and Stones is not very descriptive of what the task is doing and could be a copyrighted term. A better, more generic name would be something like: Count occurrences of a substring. If only we had such a task... --Thundergnat (talk) 12:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Although I didn't create the task, I've added a description which is consistent with the solutions submitted so far. I doubt whether it's a copyrighted term but, if it is, we'll have to change it. --PureFox (talk) 13:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Sorry. I was trying to be funny but that doesn't come across very well in text. :-( My point was we already have pretty much exactly this task with a more generic name: Count occurrences of a substring My vote on this task is to merge and delete. (Perhaps with a redirect.)

It seems to me that there's a subtle difference between the two. The existing task was counting how many times B (of arbitrary length) was contained in A. The new one is counting how many characters (or if you like sub-strings of length 1) within B are contained in A.

I can't say I'm too bothered either way but I'd be inclined to let it stand. What does Paddy think? --PureFox (talk) 15:36, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

what is a letter?

We've been here before, ...

What is a letter?

English (Roman or Latin)?   Greek?       α ß Γ π Σ σ µ τ Φ Θ Ω δ

Counting   characters   would be easier.   -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:35, 14 May 2018 (UTC)