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038 = Fldxt in Wordle and Improv Tact Hurdle

A Problem Squared

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How to Write a Word Dictionary

If you could have any five letters, there are over 11 million possible words. But as humans, we've decided most of them don't count. And there's no systematic way to know what the word is. So I spent like a minute or two basically doing this thinking, how would I work that out? "I'm like, just check all the words," he says. 'Why not?" He asks his friend and co-worker Beck. "'Because it's very generous definition of words' - Beck.""Yes!" she replies. "[It]'s called a dictionary... Nah, nah. I want a big old text file".

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