I need to find out how many times the words "Gold" and "Green" are used in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. And what pages they are located on....
2006-09-20 15:13:26 · 10 answers · asked by neener892004 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
impossible. u have to count it
2006-09-20 15:16:35 · answer #1 · answered by DevilHunter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are reading from a book, take two cups of grain, one for each color of grain. Whenever you come across gold empty one grain from gold cup and one from green cup and those emptied can be counted later for the number of time the word in question came up. For each page you can form separate cluster/boxes of grain on the floor for each page. If the book is small your house is sufficient. I hope I am clear. I am very poor in math and analogies anyway.
2006-09-20 17:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by seshu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can use the words you already know and try to estimate what the probability maybe of that many times to that exact number or whatever.
2006-09-20 16:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have handheld PDA you can download the book then use the find feature and see how many hit you get. I believe you can now get a copy of palm reader that you can view on your computer screen if you don't have a PDA.
2006-09-20 15:18:56 · answer #4 · answered by strgoddss 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would probably just be quicker to actually read the book. It sounds like you have a teacher who is pretty smart.
2006-09-20 16:37:01 · answer #5 · answered by Kate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really think you can lol sorry. Probely just counting them out would be your best bet , but that seems like it would take forever, I dont know.
2006-09-20 15:17:10 · answer #6 · answered by omfgitsdally 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without some rare scanning programed computer you can't
however their are such things ... the people who scan for prophecy codes in the bible have much more sophisticated
set ups than u would need .
2006-09-20 19:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
download the book on Google Books www.books.google.com
and, then, use the find feature on the computer.
2006-09-20 17:25:43 · answer #8 · answered by sir_scoobs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you got the softcopy, yes you can count them using Words features, otherwise it's impossible without reading it.
2006-09-20 16:31:08 · answer #9 · answered by ooowen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could always check the internet
2006-09-20 15:18:34 · answer #10 · answered by collinblane13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋