Timeline for Last in the alphabet on average
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| S Feb 15, 2022 at 23:13 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam-Webster> - both case and spelling).
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 23:07 | comment | added | user12031119 | Zzyzx, California | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 21:26 | comment | added | Julia Hayward | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing) | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 20:27 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 12:47 | vote | accept | quarague | ||
| Feb 15, 2022 at 7:49 | answer | added | LeopardShark | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 2:11 | answer | added | risky mysteries | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 23:49 | answer | added | smci | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 23:43 | comment | added | smci | Near-duplicate of my question Find the word with the highest normalized product of letter-prime values where A=2, B=3, C=5, ..., Z=101 | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 19:19 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 14, 2022 at 18:00 | answer | added | trolley813 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 15:28 | comment | added | bobble | @quarague however, it's impossible to reach 26 exactly, all you can do is inch closer and closer as if approaching an asymptote. Thus there could be theoretical infinite small improvements, unless you're willing to accept someone taking the entire Merriam-Webster dictionary and running it through a computer program, which seems not all that interesting/puzzly. | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 14:37 | comment | added | hexomino | @quarague The word Tom suggested in the deleted answer below would be a new high scorer if hyphens are ignored in character count. | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 13:59 | comment | added | quarague | @hexomino Ruling it that way would be safe and presumably guarantee that the highest scoring words are without hyphens. Ignoring them in the count altogether would be the other reasonable choice I could imagine but I don't know whether this would create new top scoring words. | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 12:41 | comment | added | hexomino | Do hyphens count in the character count and is their score 0? | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 11:58 | answer | added | Wallbreaker5th | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 11:45 | comment | added | quarague | @F1Krazy There are no infinite answers, the theoretical maximum is 26, making words longer doesn't really help and there are only finitely many words in merrian-webster. | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 11:22 | answer | added | hexomino | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 11:16 | comment | added | F1Krazy | Do you know the answer already? If not, and this is just a guessing game with potentially infinite answers, then it may be off-topic here. | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 11:11 | history | asked | quarague | CC BY-SA 4.0 |