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Letter Ratios II (Posted on 2022-04-03)

Determine the word/words with the greatest consonant to vowel ratio.

Notes:
→ No proper nouns, abbreviations/acronyms, slangs, esoteric/archaic words. Also, hyphenated words like A-bomb are NOT permissible.
→ Consider Y as a vowel.
→ The word must have at least one vowel.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

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the computer says

Comment 2 of 2 |

clearvars,clc

maxratio=0;

fid=fopen("c:\words\words.txt","r");

while ~feof(fid)

w=fgetl(fid);

if ~isequal(w,lower(w))

continue

end

l=length(w);

vowels=0;

for i=1:l

if contains("aeiouy",w(i))

vowels=vowels+1;

end

if vowels==0

continue

end

ratio=(l-vowels)/vowels;

if ratio>=maxratio

disp([w ' ' char(string(ratio))])

maxratio=ratio;

end

fclose(fid);

finds at the end

strengths 8

tsktsking 8

Posted by Charlie on 2022-04-03 10:20:47

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