#164 +λV
The words “hand”, “claw”, and “fist” occur in the singular and plural 299 times in Project Hail Mary.
“hand(s)” occurs 242 times, 122 in the singular, and 120 in the plural. It occurs 46 times in Earth sections and 196 times in Space sections. Every single chapter contains “hand” or ”hands” except the final chapter, 30.
“fist(s)” occurs 25 times, 21 in the singular, and 4 in the plural. It occurs in the singular 4 times in Earth sections and 21 times in either the singular or plural in Space sections.
“claw(s)” unsurprisingly only occurs in Space sections starting in Chapter 10. It appears 32 times in total, 19 times in the singular and 13 times in the plural.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies of each word across all sections and chapters of the book. The charts show “hand(s)”, “fist(s)”, and “claw(s)” respectively.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
connected by hand or claw
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