Re: VMs: Word Length Distribution

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

PS: I think you're on the right track.  The graphs do
indeed show movement toward a more sensible
distribution!  

Regards,
Dennis

knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> First four colums as before.
> 
> Fifth column shows word length distribution after changing "or",
> "ol", "al" and "qo" to single glyphs in addition to those already
> changed.
> 
> QUOTE
> "A word is an abstract sequence of symbols; a token is an occurrence
> of a word in the VMS text (delimited by blanks, line breaks, etc.)
> The length of a word or token is the number of symbols it contains.
> For this page, we will define symbol as Currier did; i.e. EVA ch ans
> sh will be counted as single symbols, and so are EVA cth, ckh, etc.."
> UNQUOTE   ---- J. Stolfi
> 
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/00-12-21-word-length-distr/
> 
> ... and here are a couple of the words and their factorization into
> the "alphabet" he used to define the word length:
> 
> chcthdy  {Ch}{CTh}{d}{y}  4
> 
> cphey {CPh}{e}{y} 3
> 
> When I previously said "almost identical" to his graph it was by
> eyeball. My old version of Quattro-Pro does not work on this machine.
> I have not looked at Excel functions yet and really did not
> understand a tenth of what QP had to offer. Hello Christoph, are you
> there? Someone? I thought this would be definitive by sight but it is
> not -- not to me.
> 
> I have not been able to change font with the settings for plain text
> only in Pegasus. If copied, pasted and changed to Currier New the
> columns should align unless the mail scrambles them.
> 
> I will push this a little more with consolidations. Not sure how to
> handle "eee".
> 
> 1       15      16      17      21
> 2       70      85      110     193
> 3       237     297     440     778
> 4       641     736     1138    1569
> 5       1276    1388    1798    1906
> 6       1701    1739    1847    1628
> 7       1645    1565    1267    916
> 8       1096    993     670     471
> 9       626     554     294     215
> 10      261     231     142     90
> 11      122     111     77      56
> 12      91      84      50      32
> 13      50      48      22      9
> 14      27      23      13      10
> 15      18      12      9       6
> 16      16      13      9       4
> 17      4       4       2       4
> 18      3       2       2       0
> 19      6       4       1       0
> 20      2       2       0       0
> 21      2       2       0       0
> 
> Regards to all,
> 
> Knox
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