[split] Percentage of word types that occur more than once
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All this is based on the assumption that the Voynich MS words are the equivalents of complete words in some natural language.

This is a most natural assumption that is made almost automatically by most people (at least by most people presenting solutions) but I am not at all sure that it is correct.

There are arguments in favour of it and arguments against it, but both types are rather weak.

In favour: adherence (more or less) to Zipf's law
Against: unusual distribution of repeating word sequences.
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RE: [split] Percentage of word types that occur more than once - by ReneZ - 24-06-2020, 12:43 PM
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