Experimental replica of VMS properties with a given corpus

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To get an idea of the magnitude of the frequency of abbreviations, I have read You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .

On page 7 is written:

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While 46 different abbreviations are used on fol. 11r, there are 62 different abbreviations on fol. 144r. This results from the fact that the text on fol. 144r is 3.25 times longer in terms of  the  number  of  glyphs  than  the  text  on  fol.  11r.  In  other  words, 7.5% of the glyphs on fol. 11r are abbreviations, while there is a similar amount of abbreviations on fol. 144r (7%).
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Of course it can not be said if this result represents an average.

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