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treasure trove of words (Score:1)

by mpeters (5802)

Back when I was in High School one of my english classes gave us extra credit every week if we had any new words that we had learned that week and we could show where we learned them. Bad Religion was the source of a lot of extra credit for me :)
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  by Lecar_red (5694)
  
  That is great story! BR is a great inspiration for a rich vocab and for thinking.
primary hash of hashes (Score:1)

by mw487 (439)

How about your hash, with each key a word, and each primary value a hash, with keys of 'occurences' (as before- the value the # of times the word occurs) and "songs", with the value being a hash of the song titles (keys) and the number of times occurring in that song (value).
This, my friend... (Score:1)

by educated_foo (3106)

Is why God invented stop words [wikipedia.org].
Another example (Score:2)

by grantm (164)

Another example that people may be able to relate to, is scanning an Apache log file and using the hash to count which pages were visited.
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  by baest (7529)
  
  Or removing duplicates from a list