A mathematical approach to double words, conditional logic and the missing pages

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The absolute most frequent doublet in the entire manuscript is daiin daiin.

No. It is chol.

   

Moreover the count of daiin daiin in the language B pages is roughly what would be expected if words were distributed randomly. daiin occurs 479 time in language A pages and 313 in language B pages. There are 11461 word pairs in A and 24056 word pairs in B. Expected doubles in A = 479 x 478 / 11461 = 20. In B, 313 x 312 / 24056 = 4. Actual numbers are 11 and 3.

I cannot see that this is taking you anywhere. These numbers are too small to come to any statistical conclusion. You also need to take into account that many of these repeat words are more common in language A or language B. And that language B pages have more words and that they have longer sentences. Also that the main language B sections, quires 13 and 20, have different frequency of repeats and seem to have a slightly different corpus of words.

The text in the sections of the manuscript is not uniform and seems to defy generalisation.