Sorting, hashing, and sketches on 370,103 words

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In Post 2 we built the foundations with Python lists, dicts, sets, and recursion, learning how the language's core containers behave under load. Now we put those tools through their paces on a real dataset: 370,103 English words, one per line, drawn from the dwyl/english-words repository.

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