Understanding Text Readability: Flesch Score Calculation, Lecture notes of Data Structures and Algorithms

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Measuring the

"Readability" of Text

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 Describe how the Flesch Readability Score can be

used to determine the readability of text

By the end of this video you will be able to…

If you are single, never lost your spouse, and not the head of a household, you pay taxes according to the following table:

There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual (other than a surviving spouse as defined in section 2(a) or the head of a household as defined in section 2(b)) who is not a married individual (as defined in section 7703) a tax determined in accordance with the following table: If you are single, never lost your spouse, and not the head of a household, you pay taxes according to the following table:

Measure of text readability

High score (>90)  easy to read Few words/sentence and few syllables/word low low

Measure of text readability

There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual (other than a surviving spouse as defined in section 2(a) or the head of a household as defined in section 2(b)) who is not a married individual (as defined in section 7703) a tax determined in accordance with the following table: If you are single, never lost your spouse, and not the head of a household, you pay taxes according to the following table:

Requires the ability to manipulate Strings!