Problem 200. does it touch ?

Created by eric landiech

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given a sentence, tell how much it touches.

input : string

output : how much it touches

touching : a bilabial phoneme does, thinking about the lips

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Alan Chalker on 25 Feb 2012

Does 'touch' mean something for a linguistic / grammatical standpoint? Or is this just a 'joke' problem of some sort?

Jan on 4 Mar 2012

The description is not sufficient to define the inputs and outputs of the wanted function.

Aurelien Queffurust on 30 Mar 2012

I don't understand the meaning of "Does it touch?" (maybe because I am French) . Even by looking at the test suite , it doesn't help. Eric Could you explain more which task we have to achieve ? Thanks.

eric landiech on 4 Apr 2012

Sorry guys, I correct it.

Mark on 9 Jun 2012

All posted solutions as of today incorrectly detect "ph", such as in the word "phone" which should return 0. Add a test case for "ph", which would complicate matters?

Richard Zapor on 15 Oct 2012

Count the b's, m's and p's?

eric landiech on 16 Oct 2012

Yep Richard. It's a part of phonemes that are to be isolated while voice recognition.

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