Newbie: Large dictionaries

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 23-Feb-01 Fredrik Lundh wrote:
 >  and what language has four million *unique* words
 >  having six characters and less?

Well, there are approximately 300 million combinations of 6 letters
from an alphabet of size 26. I wouldn't be surprized if there actually 
are 4 million unique words of length 6 in some language.

/Mikael

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