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... letter w has a relatively small probability p of occurrence in French and hence informs us much by its presence exactly because there are much more frequent letters , for example , the letter e . The presence of e gives us , on the ...
... letter w has a relatively small probability p of occurrence in French and hence informs us much by its presence exactly because there are much more frequent letters , for example , the letter e . The presence of e gives us , on the ...
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... letters , diacritical marks , and grammatical signs Very frequent letters Bulk of the alphabet Rare letters 647,390 Σn.p ; log2 p : number of letters in group i ; i = I H = 2,586,000 bits . If all of the 22 symbols of the Hebrew ...
... letters , diacritical marks , and grammatical signs Very frequent letters Bulk of the alphabet Rare letters 647,390 Σn.p ; log2 p : number of letters in group i ; i = I H = 2,586,000 bits . If all of the 22 symbols of the Hebrew ...
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... letters which would have been attained if all the letters had been equi- probable , p = 1/26 ≈ 0.04 , is Hm = 3.32 log10 26 = 4.8 bits . Hence the relative redundancy of French letters is ( 4.8-3.86 ) /4.8 = 19 per cent . Obviously ...
... letters which would have been attained if all the letters had been equi- probable , p = 1/26 ≈ 0.04 , is Hm = 3.32 log10 26 = 4.8 bits . Hence the relative redundancy of French letters is ( 4.8-3.86 ) /4.8 = 19 per cent . Obviously ...
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