Kookamoor
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Given that the original Four Word Story has now ended (thank you Stewart for your initiative... I think the flatulent mongoose wandered off half way through the tale), does any one want to try and summarise that tripe... I mean, quality literature? It shouldn't take too long and you can bung it at the bottom of the original Four Word Story thread.
If you're not convinced that it's feasible:
There's 1891 posts. Assuming it takes 5 seconds to copy each post and paste it in a separate document that's 9455 seconds, ~158 minutes, ~2.626 hours, or 2 hours 37 minutes 35 seconds.
Assuming that all posts contain 4 words (which they don't), that's 7564 words. Now, the average word in the english language contains 5 characters, so that's 37 820 characters. Let's assume that there's a space after every word (45384 characters). Good writers average 15 to 20 words per sentence, thus let's assume we're good (optomist) and assume that there's a period every 15 words. This higher number should accommodate other punctuation as well, which is largely lacking anyway, from memory (7564/15 = ~504). Thus 45 888 characters in total. Given that each TBF post may be a maximum of 10 000 characters, that means the summary should fit over 5 posts.
And in the time it's taken me to work all this out, I'm sure I could be about 23.56% done by now
. But that's enough procrastination from me!
I throw the challenge gauntlet to someone else!
If you're not convinced that it's feasible:
There's 1891 posts. Assuming it takes 5 seconds to copy each post and paste it in a separate document that's 9455 seconds, ~158 minutes, ~2.626 hours, or 2 hours 37 minutes 35 seconds.
Assuming that all posts contain 4 words (which they don't), that's 7564 words. Now, the average word in the english language contains 5 characters, so that's 37 820 characters. Let's assume that there's a space after every word (45384 characters). Good writers average 15 to 20 words per sentence, thus let's assume we're good (optomist) and assume that there's a period every 15 words. This higher number should accommodate other punctuation as well, which is largely lacking anyway, from memory (7564/15 = ~504). Thus 45 888 characters in total. Given that each TBF post may be a maximum of 10 000 characters, that means the summary should fit over 5 posts.
And in the time it's taken me to work all this out, I'm sure I could be about 23.56% done by now
. But that's enough procrastination from me!I throw the challenge gauntlet to someone else!
.