Problem 56. Scrabble Scores

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Jonas on 10 Jun 2020

Why don't you provide the counting system inside the function? What's the point of retyping it from wiki?

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Paul Smits on 15 Apr 2019

Funny that 2017a-style double quotations significantly shorter the size as compared to the 2016b-style string() function alternative :)

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rifat on 13 Mar 2015

didnt see that Cody changed the test suite of this problem and I lost one important badge. such a shame..

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Gareth Lee on 21 May 2015

not good

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