09-04-2016, 04:54 PM
Quote:I currently checked botanical folios up to 10v (I will check them all shortly), and found that, all paragraphs taken together, their first vords exhibit only 50% uniqueness. This means that if we exclude first paragraphs, then second etc. paragraphs would exhibit quite low degree of uniqueness of their first vords - in contrast to the first paragraphs, the first vords of which are at the same time the first vords in folios.
To sum the things up:
1) 49% of first vords of all paragraphs of botanical folios are unique.
2) As already indicated in the title post, 66% of first vords of first paragraphs (or, which is the same thing, first vords of folios) of botanical folios are unique.
3) 31% of first vords of non-first (second, third etc.) paragraphs of botanical folios are unique.
Therefore, if position matters, then the high degree of uniqueness of first vords of botanical folios (as compared to the second, third or last vords of folios) is not due to their position in the paragraph, but rather due to their position in the folio.