About word length distribution
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People pointed out some problems and mistakes with my approach. Thank you for the feedback!

I started from basics and did a graph where I extracted words from file You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and computed the length histogram. (relative number of occurrences of a each length). On top of that I put distribution of 3 dice sum divided by 2. This time rounded down so sum of 3 would result to 3/2 = 1.5 => 1 and sums 4 and 5 to 2 etc..

Assuming I did not do any major mistake it could indicate that word lengths was decided by the dice or similar method. Please note that medieval dices were not fully balanced so if this was done by real dices one would expect a skew from a perfect binomial distribution.

Attached the used word list generated from the linked VT0e-n.txt.


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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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