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generate a list of all valid words #665

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De7vID opened this issue Aug 20, 2022 · 1 comment
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generate a list of all valid words #665

De7vID opened this issue Aug 20, 2022 · 1 comment
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De7vID commented Aug 20, 2022

Somebody made a request to generate a list of all valid words from the database. Basically, they want a list of all words (which would exclude things like sentences) with all possible affixes. The purpose of the list is validation (matching a user-entered input against the list).

I've explained to them that the existing code already does validation but apparently their application requires the explicit list. So if anybody feels like writing a script that outputs this, I can put you in touch with them.

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De7vID commented Aug 22, 2022

After thinking about this some more, it may actually be infeasible. I did a rough calculation of the number of valid words in Klingon, and it's in the order of hundreds of billions. I made some simplifying assumptions but I don't think the number is too far off.

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