[htdig-dev] Re: long texts (was Several questions...)

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 09:37  PM, Geoff Hutchison wrote:

> for the maximum number of words in a document. But 2^24 gives us a 
> good 16-million words, which is good enough for War and Peace. (I'm 
> checking at the moment.)

Well, we might get by on less than that:
(These are the Project Gutenberg etext editions of _War and Peace_ and 
the King James Bible.)

localhost: ghutchis% wc wrnpc10.txt
    67337  566237 3282452 wrnpc10.txt
localhost: ghutchis% wc bible11.txt
   114385  822894 4959549 bible11.txt

So I'd guess that 2^20 should be more than enough words. Or does 
someone have a nice long document to prove me wrong?

-Geoff