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[shadowscast]

Sometimes when I'm editing a long story, and I'm looking at it in one window (say, in displayed html format) but editing it in some other window (the text editor), and I need to find a particular place in the text, I'll use the "find" function to get there quickly. Usually I do this by picking one word in the surrounding paragraph that I'm pretty sure hasn't been used anywhere else in the text. If that doesn't work then I'll do a two-word combo, but usually it's possible with just one word.

This makes me think about how many words there are in the English language.

That sure is a lot of words.

But I'm really terrible at Scrabble!

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[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

I could, however, with a pencil and paper and pocket calculator, tell you exactly how many distinct permutations of letters are in any given Scrabble hand!

[shapinglight]

Heh! Definitely couldn't do that.