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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by suyjuris on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:45AM (#22854376)
It is a minor point, but 467 words would suffice, as there are 16865705 possibilities to choose 3 elements out of 467. (This is the smallest possible.)
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Re:Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M... by _0ffh on Monday April 13, 2020 @06:36AM (#22854594)
Strictly speaking, yes, if you just view it as unordered sampling without replacement. Although that would squeeze out nearly all of the creative side of things.
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