About word length distribution
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(05-05-2025, 09:05 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.VM word length famously follows binomial distribution of f(n, 9, 0.5) + 1

The details of the binomial distribution of course depend on the transliteration system. We don't know what makes a Voynich character (EVA:a, iin, aiin?). They also depend on how the many uncertain spaces are treated.

Stolfi observed that there are natural languages whose word length follows a binomial distribution.

Gaskell and Bowern found that spontaneous written gibberish can have a word length distribution with low skewness.

Lots of the glyphs appear as singlets in lists ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) or in the circles ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). I think we can reasonably treat those glyps as single letters. How many glyphs are missing if we combine all those lists? Could that perhaps help to discover capital letters?
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About word length distribution - by tikonen - 04-05-2025, 09:36 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by Koen G - 04-05-2025, 09:51 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by tikonen - 06-05-2025, 08:50 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by nablator - 04-05-2025, 10:19 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by Letieum - 05-05-2025, 12:55 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by RadioFM - 05-05-2025, 06:37 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by oshfdk - 05-05-2025, 08:56 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by ReneZ - 05-05-2025, 10:09 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by davidd - 08-05-2025, 09:29 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by MarcoP - 05-05-2025, 09:05 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by Koen G - 05-05-2025, 09:59 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by davidd - 08-05-2025, 09:25 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by ReneZ - 05-05-2025, 11:44 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by tikonen - 06-05-2025, 06:07 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by kckluge - 06-05-2025, 07:19 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by Koen G - 06-05-2025, 09:01 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by kckluge - 06-05-2025, 10:32 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by Koen G - 06-05-2025, 11:10 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by kckluge - 08-05-2025, 05:03 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by Rafal - 06-05-2025, 10:57 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by MarcoP - 06-05-2025, 12:44 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by davidd - 08-05-2025, 09:33 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by tikonen - 08-05-2025, 05:59 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by oshfdk - 08-05-2025, 06:09 PM
RE: About word length distribution - by tikonen - 09-05-2025, 07:58 AM
RE: About word length distribution - by ReneZ - 09-05-2025, 12:05 AM

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