Longest word.

[wizardzz]

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/11/worlds-longest-word-has-189819-letters-t.php[^] It's just under 190k characters long and takes 3.5 hours to pronounce. Anyone have a good use for it? (you can get a text file of it in the link)

[Chris Meech]

What happens if 185 of them walk into a bar? :)

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

Damn it, bring back the voting buttons - that need a 5!

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[Marc Clifton]

That's just stupid - it's a list of the amino acids or whatever. It's not a word. It's like taking a DVD and making the longest word ever out the digital data. :| Marc

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[wizardzz]

If you did that and read it for 3.5 hours, you would probably get featured, too.

[Mike Hankey]

I disagree I believe sex is the longest word because it takes years just to realize the ramifications of what you just did?

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[Tim Corey]

If we are going down that road, I would submit that "I was wrong" is the longest phrase in the world. It takes years to say, if you can ever actually get the whole thing out.

[Lost User]

I lol'd when he mispronounced @ approx 2.5hrs. It's 'tera' not 'tara' ya noob.

[Big Daddy Farang]

I thought that was just his Canadian accent.

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[Mike Hankey]

Tim Corey wrote:

If we are going down that road, I would submit that "I was wrong" is the longest phrase in the world.

:laugh: very true but being a man a woman automatically assumes you're wrong and nothing you say can change that.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

smiles -- there's a mile between the Ses.

[0bx]

If you skip through the video you see the plant dying.

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[RC_Sebastien_C]

Bookmarked for a future well deserved 5! The punchline better be VERY good! :)

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Tokenizing it by la, lc, lg, and lt, you see it's made up of 6468 word groups (tokens included). Removing duplicates gives us 908 words. So there's room for compression. Tokenizing by l reduces it all to about 26 words.

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[wizardzz]

And to be fair, it does only contain 26 letters, multiple times and in different order.