04-05-2022, 06:26 PM
(04-05-2022, 06:00 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is really just a simple matter of information content divided by text length.
In practice, abbreviation in manuscripts often destroys information though (the same symbol replacing various strings). If this is driven to the extreme in an experimental situation, you might reach a point where your h2 will drop. For example, replace everything that could be abbreviated by medieval scribes with "1". I predict that h2 will follow a bell curve as you replace more strings. But this will be a significant cost of information, and it may have become impossible to read the text. And the result will still look nothing like Voynichese.

