VMs: RE: word length counts - addendum

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In addition, only 24 glyphs represent single-glyph words, and of these 24
only 14 are from the "standard" set of glyphs.
GC

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> Subject: VMs: word length counts
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> Here are some stats from a glyph-based point of view, taken from
> the first 6
> quires, or the first 96 pages of the VMS.
>
> 96 pages
> 31,412 glyphs or characters
> 8,175 words
> 2,940 unique words
> 2,141 words occur only once (i.e. 72.8% of all words are truly unique)
> 309 words occur only twice
> 146 words occur three times
> 69 words occur 4 times
> 51 words occur 5 times
> 2,716 words (or 92.4%) used five times or less.
>
> 8am is the most popular word, with 362 occurrences.  The next in order has
> less than half of this, at 172 occurrences.
>
> The longest word is 10 glyphs in length.
>
> Word length counts
> 1	235
> 2	980
> 3	2540
> 4	1928
> 5	1494
> 6	684
> 7	225
> 8	69
> 9	16
> 10	4
>
>
> 92 unique glyphs (including the two astrological glyphs on f1r)
> 22 occur only once
> 17 occur only twice
> 6 occur three times
> 2 occur four times
> 2 occur five times
> 49 ( or 53%) occur five times or less.
> Only 21 glyphs occur 100 times or more, to make up 30,529 occurrences, or
> 97% of all occurrences.
>
> Only 15 glyphs occur 1% or more of the time.
> If the standard Latin alphabet of 24 were considered, the highest
> 24 glyphs
> make up 30,760 occurrences, or 98% of the first 6 quires of the VMS.
>
> GC
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