28-06-2020, 01:43 AM
By way of comparison, here's the word length distribution of the vocabulary of 6818 words (such is the size of the VMS vocabulary as per my test in the above post), where each word is coded with the unique binary number, starting with 1 and ending with 1101010100010.
It's self-evident that this distribution would be highly asymmetric (each subsequent value of word length will occur twice times the previous value).
(Of course, binary numbers would not have been known to a XV century author).
On the other hand, here's the word length distribution of the vocabulary of the same size (6818 words) where each word is coded with the unique Roman number, starting with I and ending with MMMMMMDCCCXVIII.
Blue is the distribution itself, and red is the Gaussian curve with the same EV (8.9) and RMS (2.7).
It's self-evident that this distribution would be highly asymmetric (each subsequent value of word length will occur twice times the previous value).
(Of course, binary numbers would not have been known to a XV century author).
On the other hand, here's the word length distribution of the vocabulary of the same size (6818 words) where each word is coded with the unique Roman number, starting with I and ending with MMMMMMDCCCXVIII.
Blue is the distribution itself, and red is the Gaussian curve with the same EV (8.9) and RMS (2.7).
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