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The challenge: tell English words apart from nonwords
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Clarify case-sensitivity #5

Closed AlexanderOMara closed 8 years ago

AlexanderOMara commented 8 years ago

The instructions say:

Membership in the dictionary is case-insensitive.

However it's not entirely clear what this means. The list contains for example ZZZ, Zzz, and zzz.

Should a 100% accurate implementation check the case-sensitivity? For example, would input of zZz fail or pass?

sophiebits commented 8 years ago

I believe it would pass. One of the test cases I downloaded says "tylosurus" should pass yet only "Tylosurus" is in the dictionary. The fact that zzz appears three times is probably an ignorable curiosity.

feldgendler commented 8 years ago

A string W is considered an English word if and only if words.txt contains at least one string S where W.toLowerCase()==S.toLowerCase().