Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Given a string of words, you need to find the highest scoring word.
Each letter of a word scores points according to its position in the alphabet: a =
1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.
You need to return the highest scoring word as a string.
If two words score the same, return the word that appears earliest in the original string.
All letters will be lowercase and all inputs will be valid.
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Transcribed Image Text:Given a string of words, you need to find the highest scoring word. Each letter of a word scores points according to its position in the alphabet: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc. You need to return the highest scoring word as a string. If two words score the same, return the word that appears earliest in the original string. All letters will be lowercase and all inputs will be valid.
def basic_test_cases ():
test.assert_equals (high('man i need a taxi up to ubud'), ' taxi')
test.assert_equals (high('what time are we climbing up the volcano'), 'volcano')
test.assert_equals (high('take me to semynak'), 'semynak')
test.assert_equals (high('aa b'), 'aa')
test.assert_equals (high('b aa'), 'b')
test.assert_equals (high('bb d'), 'bb')
test.assert_equals (high('d bb'), 'd')
test.assert_equals (high("aaa b"), "aaa")
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Transcribed Image Text:def basic_test_cases (): test.assert_equals (high('man i need a taxi up to ubud'), ' taxi') test.assert_equals (high('what time are we climbing up the volcano'), 'volcano') test.assert_equals (high('take me to semynak'), 'semynak') test.assert_equals (high('aa b'), 'aa') test.assert_equals (high('b aa'), 'b') test.assert_equals (high('bb d'), 'bb') test.assert_equals (high('d bb'), 'd') test.assert_equals (high("aaa b"), "aaa")
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