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... redundancy of French letters is ( 4.8-3.86 ) /4.8 = 19 per cent . Obviously , these calculations are approximate . This figure is clearly larger than that for Hebrew . This is due to the plethora of useless vowels in French . In Hebrew ...
... redundancy of French letters is ( 4.8-3.86 ) /4.8 = 19 per cent . Obviously , these calculations are approximate . This figure is clearly larger than that for Hebrew . This is due to the plethora of useless vowels in French . In Hebrew ...
Page 46
... redundancy were zero , any collection of letters would be a possible and meaningful message , as is the case with certain secret telegraphic codes used in commerce . If the redundancy is too high , the structure of the lan- guage ...
... redundancy were zero , any collection of letters would be a possible and meaningful message , as is the case with certain secret telegraphic codes used in commerce . If the redundancy is too high , the structure of the lan- guage ...
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... redundancy calculated from the elementary letter probabilities by the basic formula for information and the redundancy experi- mentally determined by random destruction of message elements . This difference is easy to express ...
... redundancy calculated from the elementary letter probabilities by the basic formula for information and the redundancy experi- mentally determined by random destruction of message elements . This difference is easy to express ...
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