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What's the cardinality of the intersection of the English dictionary and npm package names?
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Copyright (c) 2022 Hugo Manrique | |
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const names = require('all-the-package-names'); | |
const dictionary = require('dictionary-en'); | |
dictionary((err, { dic: buf }) => { | |
if (err) throw err; | |
const words = new Set(buf.toString().split('\n')); | |
const count = names.filter(name => words.has(name)).length; | |
console.log(`${count}/${words.size} ≈ ${count / words.size}`); | |
}); |
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As of 2022-07-04, 1587 npm package names are valid English words, accounting for ≈3.2% of hunspell's English dictionary.