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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The description of A124015 is</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>%N A124015 Number of words with n letters in the
National Scrabble Association Dictionary.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some notes:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- It should be noted that the NSAD includes a
restricted set of English words (words of 2 to 14 letters, no proper nouns or
derivatives, no words with non-alphabetic characters (e.g, contractions,
hyphenated words), and it is this restricted set that is being
counted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>- The edition of the NSAD used to create
A124015 should be specified, since the NSAD is continually edited. While I
do not think that A124015 should change with each new edition of the NSAD,
because it may be referenced in other literature. On the other hand, I don't
think that a new sequence should be created for each new edition of the NSAD
unless the new edition exhibits some interesting statistical departure from the
current NSAD (e.g, in some future NSAD, the number of 9-letter words exceeds the
number of 8-letter words). This is because I believe that the value of A124015
is mainly to indicate a distribution of English word
lengths.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- On the other hand, I have always understood that
4-letter words are most common in literature (where small words appear more
often). It might be interesting to create a sequence counting words of length n
in the King James Bible, War and Peace, or some other suitably large and stable
piece of English literature (we don't have to go overboard on this, just one or
two examples indicating word length distributions in literature).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Another interesting idea: In various languages,
what is the distribution of the number of letters in the names of numbers from
one to (say) one million?</FONT></DIV>
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