[split] Percentage of word types that occur more than once

[Stephen Carlson]

This is also not unusual, at least not for non-English works... I found that the Swedish novel Inferno by August Strindberg has a number of 4.38 (total number of words about 46 000).

What's this ratio of? hapaxes or word types?

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Thanks to RobGea for the post with verifiable numbers.

It confirms that, at least for this particular statistic, the Voynich MS is within the range of existing reference texts.

The Pliny reference is very interesting and good potential point of comparison, but Latin is a heavily inflected language, which increases the number of unique words. As far as I know, all attempts to find inflection in Voynichese have resulted in failure however.