Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%
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 Published On Premiered Oct 16, 2022

YES, the improvement should be 40,832,277,770%, not what I say in the video. The "408,322,778" multiple was correct and I did the percentage the wrong way. There will not be a follow-up video to correct that.

The improvement was to my code from this video:    • Can you find: five five-letter words ...  

This is episode 038 of the A Problem Squared podcast which started it all: https://aproblemsquared.libsyn.com/03...

Here is Benjamin Paaßen's full grid of all results and techniques used. It also has links to all the code as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

The article by "encody" I mentioned:   / how-to-speed-up-your-code-224-444-739-usin...  

This is the reverse-frequency alphabet. Which is frequency in words, not in use (which would allow for frequency of word use; this list counts each word once).
QXJZVFWBKGPMHDCYTLNUROISEA

And whynot, a whole bunch of code. All of it is better than mine. All of it. (Even if you ran it all sequentially.)

Benjamin Paassen [bpaassen]
https://gitlab.com/bpaassen/five_clique
Sylvester Hesp [oisyn]
https://github.com/oisyn/parkerwords
Phire [phire]
https://github.com/phire/five_clique
Neil Coffey [neilcoffey]
https://github.com/neilcoffey/FunStuf...
Richard Ebeling [He3lixxx]
https://github.com/He3lixxx/five-word...
Phillip Alday [palday]
https://github.com/palday/FiveLetterW...
Diggory Blake [Diggsey]
https://github.com/Diggsey/five_words...
Orson Peters [orlp]
https://github.com/orlp/matt-parker-f...
Bryan Redd [ae6nr]
https://github.com/ae6nr/25letters
Pablo Yaggi [pyaggi]
https://github.com/pyaggi/WordStats
Leonardo Taglialegne [miniBill]
https://github.com/miniBill/parkerrust
Nathan Baulch [NathanBaulch]
https://gist.github.com/NathanBaulch/...
Stefan Pochmann [pochmann]
https://replit.com/@pochmann/5words53...
Jacob [encody]
https://github.com/encody/jotto-problem
Gé Weijers [gweijers]
https://github.com/gweijers/wordle_cover
David A. Dalrymple [davidad]
https://github.com/davidad/five-letters
Alex Recuenco [recuenco_alex]
https://github.com/alexrecuenco/five_...
Kristin Paget [KristinPaget]
https://github.com/kristinpaget/fivew...
Ilya Nikolaevsky [IlyaNikolaevsky]
https://github.com/ilyanikolaevsky/fi...

Cheers to my Patreons for helping enable these videos. Without them test running all that code I'd never know how much better an iPad is than me. I'm sure I'll need Patreon help again soon; you can join the team here:   / standupmaths  

CORRECTIONS
- Ha, I got the percentage around the wrong way. Should be 40,832,277,770% better.
- Yes, I missed the binary digit for the "A" in "BREAD" and everyone in the live premier chat noticed. Sorry about that. 🍞
- Let me know if you spot any other mistakes!

Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Some graphics by Benjamin Paaßen
Written and performed by Matt "32 days later" Parker
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson

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