Re: VMs: Proving Gibberish

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

17/08/2004 12:00:49 PM, Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>We've probably all seen instances where this appears to be true (I was 
>looking at the first para of f3r yesterday, where EVA <damo> appears twice 
>about a line apart), but you'd need to construct a properly designed 
>statistical test to decide how significant a feature this actually is.

The test needs to be carried out on other texts, _handwritten_ or _typed_
texts. When I write (type) an article, I often find myself using again 
a word that I have just used a line or two above (then I correct it,
because it is awful style). See? just there: "using", and on the next line
"use", and I did not do it on purpose.



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