Counting ns

✅ Correct GPT-4 ⚔️ Default

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Prompt

Count the number of occurrences of the letter n in the word mayonnaise. Specify the location of each with the first letter of the word being 1

Answer

The letter "n" occurs twice in the word "mayonnaise", specifically at positions 5 and 6, where the first letter of the word is considered position 1.

Analysis

# Let's count the occurrences of 'n' in 'mayonnaise' and identify their positions.

word = "mayonnaise"
target_letter = "n"

# Count occurrences
occurrences = word.count(target_letter)

# Find positions (1-indexed)
positions = [i+1 for i, letter in enumerate(word) if letter == target_letter]

occurrences, positions