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• Eddy - 9 years, 11 months ago

  My solution in C. I expanded the definition of "two letters next to each other" to repeating letters in general. Here are some of the results the program generated using the word list shipped with OS X Yosemite:

  A:    199,554 | repeated:      124
  B:     40,433 | repeated:      927
  C:    103,440 | repeated:    1,524
  D:     68,191 | repeated:    1,034
  E:    235,331 | repeated:    3,994
  F:     24,165 | repeated:    1,744
  G:     47,094 | repeated:    1,139
  H:     64,356 | repeated:       74
  I:    201,032 | repeated:      420
  J:      3,167 | repeated:        2
  K:     16,158 | repeated:       72
  L:    130,463 | repeated:   11,411
  M:     70,680 | repeated:    2,020
  N:    158,743 | repeated:    2,422
  O:    170,692 | repeated:    4,679
  P:     78,163 | repeated:    2,022
  Q:      3,734 | repeated:        1
  R:    160,985 | repeated:    3,649
  S:    139,542 | repeated:   14,427
  T:    152,831 | repeated:    3,232
  U:     87,353 | repeated:       27
  V:     20,177 | repeated:       12
  W:     13,864 | repeated:       57
  X:      6,932 | repeated:        0
  Y:     51,681 | repeated:        4
  Z:      8,460 | repeated:      271
  Most frequent letter: E
  Most repeating letter: S
  

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