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Roman Opałka was a French-born Polish painter who painted numbers. In 1965 he began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. As of July 2004, he had reached 5.5 million. (via triangulation

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Proof: Don Quijote -- Word Statistics

I can’t think of how I could possibly use Unix for Poets, but I WANT TO.

isomorphisms:

Using the Gutenberg Project’s free text of Don Quijote + Unix for Poets, here are the most used (non-short) words in Miguel de Cervantes’ famous work:

  • 2167 Quijote
  • 2145 Sancho
  • 1331 porque
  • 1053 respondió
  • 1027 había
  • 900 merced

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