Have students create a Python program that implements an automated authorship detection algorithm, which gives them an opportunity to practice working with strings, lists, and loops.

In automated authorship detection, a computer program analyzes a large collection of texts, one of which has an unknown author.
- The program uses statistics, such as words per sentence, to analyze the similarity between two texts in order to determine the author of the unattributed text.
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