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How many extra keypresses on an old-style cell phone keyboard?
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# How many extra keypresses does it take to type alphabetic characters on an | |
# old-style cell phone keyboard? | |
# https://www.facebook.com/zorikh.lequidre/posts/10151583168686662 | |
# The result: 1.14908 extra keypresses "wasted" each time! | |
# Frequency table from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency | |
frequencies = { | |
'a': 0.08167, | |
'b': 0.01492, | |
'c': 0.02782, | |
'd': 0.04253, | |
'e': 0.12702, | |
'f': 0.02228, | |
'g': 0.02015, | |
'h': 0.06094, | |
'i': 0.06966, | |
'j': 0.00153, | |
'k': 0.00772, | |
'l': 0.04025, | |
'm': 0.02406, | |
'n': 0.06749, | |
'o': 0.07507, | |
'p': 0.01929, | |
'q': 0.00095, | |
'r': 0.05987, | |
's': 0.06327, | |
't': 0.09056, | |
'u': 0.02758, | |
'v': 0.00978, | |
'w': 0.02360, | |
'x': 0.00150, | |
'y': 0.01974, | |
'z': 0.00074, | |
} | |
keypresses = { | |
'a': 1, | |
'b': 2, | |
'c': 3, | |
'd': 1, | |
'e': 2, | |
'f': 3, | |
'g': 1, | |
'h': 2, | |
'i': 3, | |
'j': 1, | |
'k': 2, | |
'l': 3, | |
'm': 1, | |
'n': 2, | |
'o': 3, | |
'p': 1, | |
'q': 2, | |
'r': 3, | |
's': 4, | |
't': 1, | |
'u': 2, | |
'v': 3, | |
'w': 1, | |
'x': 2, | |
'y': 3, | |
'z': 4, | |
} | |
keypresses = sum(frequencies[key] * presses for (key, presses) in keypresses.items()) | |
print 'Extra keypresses = %s' % (keypresses - 1) |
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