(03-11-2016, 04:27 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By the way, neither of Bennett's calculations for natural languages does incorporate digits - which would add ten additional characters into the alphabet. Of course for texts such as "Hamlet" this is not crucial - since digits, if ever met with, are very rare there and do not influence the end result. But what e.g. for an apothecary's notebook?
Yes, all good points.
On the latter point, most apothecarial manuscripts have numbers, as do many with remedies and healing charms. For what it's worth, most of the ones I've seen are single digits (when expressed with Arabic numbers).