I know I have some mathematically inclined LJ friends, and I was wondering if you would be willing to check my math. I've received an email containing a story about someone in the UK who drew JANITOR to begin a game at age 19, and then at age 59 did the exact same thing again. It didn't specify whether there were any blanks involved. He was ( Read more... )

I've added some more detail to the FAQ about how Zyzzyva calculates word probabilities, because I get a lot of questions about it. In particular, I wrote up some simple examples to demonstrate why words with doubled and tripled letters are much less probable than words with all unique letters. I hope you find this useful ( Read more... )