Hyperwebster
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Definitions
- 1 A theoretical dictionary that contains every possible word of every length using the 26 letters found in the English language.
"The staff at the publishing company realizes that it can partition the words into 26 volumes, one for each letter of the alphabet. So the Hyperwebster now looks like the following: […] The content of the hyperwebster^([sic]) is equivalent to points on a real line (replace A-Z above with 0-9 and observe that it generates all real numbers)."
Example
More examples"The staff at the publishing company realizes that it can partition the words into 26 volumes, one for each letter of the alphabet. So the Hyperwebster now looks like the following: […] The content of the hyperwebster^([sic]) is equivalent to points on a real line (replace A-Z above with 0-9 and observe that it generates all real numbers)."
Etymology
From hyper- + Webster, coined by English mathematician Ian Stewart in 1996 in his book From Here to Infinity.
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