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Mystery Text Discussion: ww.txt #106

Open ebeshero opened 1 month ago

ebeshero commented 1 month ago

Post your screenshots and discuss your findings about ww.txt here!

GwR419 commented 4 weeks ago

So i found interesting that this mystay text brought up martians a lot at 163 times which was said more than the word came showing how frequently it shows up. In one of my photos I screenshotted how frequently and how many times it was used in certain parts of the text. another than i noticed was there was a frequency with a five letter phrase "the edge of the pit" which was used 8 times which i think is pretty big for a 5 Ngram scan, and it seems that there is a big plot point of this pit and a major setting in the story. At an NGRAM of 3 a phrase shows up "of the martians" 28 times so that would also mean that i would imagine this story being about martians and something to do with maybe the pit of space being the edge or maybe talking about a planet.

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dal5842 commented 4 weeks ago

Searching for N-grams size 3 or less will give frequencies more then 5 consistently but if you go above the size of 3 N-grams up to 5 N-grams will result with a couple 5 or more frequencies. Using the N-gram sizes 1 and 2 will give you all double digits or more consistently but size 3 and 4 will result in a couple double digits. With the N-gram size of 1 the word "the" has the highest frequency (Freq 4789). From the N-gram size 2 the two word phrase "of the" results the highest (req 737). With N-gram size of 3 that the three word phrase "out of the" is the highest (Freq 53).The N-gram size 5 is the max size that will result with with a frequency of more then five for a phrase. I chose "the war" as a phrase to check for and I found it repeats five times. Using themes or dates, maybe the use of locations.

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