Re: [aspell-devel] Why does aspell prefer "skyjack"?

[Steve Hoeg]

I don't know if I'm missing something, but couldn't you just grab random words 
from a word list?

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:55:48 +0100 (CET)
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> Dear All,
>    First, I hope this is the right list (and not the aspell-user) for my
> problem, if not, please let me know.
>    I started to develop a network playable version of my favourite word
> game "Anagramarama" (see http://www.coralquest.com/anagramarama/), and I
> decided to replace its internal dictionary with aspell - it works quite
> well, but I have a little problem:
>    I generate words (with a given length) to guess by generating a random
> string, and pick up an appropriate word from aspell's suggestions list. It
> seems to me, that aspell "prefers" some words when making suggestions. I
> have generated 30000 seven letters long words, it came up with 8806
> different ones, but some of them occured much more frequently than the
> others: "skyjack" was the winner, it came up 153 times ( ~ every 200nd
> turn in average)  Actually, the top 3 was the same when running another
> 30000 two times.
>    Anyway, it's not a big problem, and I can also imagine, that it lies
> with the unfamous "rand()" function. All I want is to ask you, if any of
> the list memebers have an idea how to generate words randomly in a
> more "fair" way -if yes, please let me know.
>    If someone is inetersted, I can send the list of the generated words
> sorted by their frequency, and the code which generated it.
> 
> Thanky you and Good bye:
> Miklos Merenyi
> 
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