Jason Cole 1/6/2019

A unique spell on the tube

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This article investigates a trivia fact about London's St. John's Wood tube station being the only one not sharing any letters with the word 'mackerel'. The author uses datasets of English words and tube station names to compute all combinations, employing a Node script for efficiency. Results show 57,614 such word-station pairs, debunking the uniqueness claim. The analysis includes visualizations of station 'hits', highlights Woodford as the most fertile station, and lists rare matches like Whitechapel with 'borborygmus'. This is a technical, data-focused exploration relevant to programming and data analysis.

A unique spell on the tube

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