Self-referential language counting (I learned another word today bringing my total to fourteen words and twenty letters)
Martin Paul Eve · 2023
A recent XKCD caused some amusement: “Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to twelve”. We wondered whether there might be possible formulations of this joke that also contained the unique character count, so I wrote the following python script: import num2word import numpy def find_self_reference(): sentence = "I learned another word today bringing my total to {0} words and {1} letters" words = 12 for i