Split: Entropy digression
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(09-07-2026, 02:34 PM)Stefan Wirtz_2 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You remarked the 'spaces' already, but a tool that is taking 'returns' as symbols? Come on, did you even check your own tools...?

Of course, come on!

But did you check Ed's tool, which you seem to trust?

As I clearly wrote, I computed the entropy both 'with' the space as a character and 'without'.

All other meaningless characters (returns, commas, repeated spaces, whatever) are ignored (of course!).
May I suggest that it is a bit odd that you need to play with that, in order to get alternative values out?
I can decide to include or exclude numbers as valid characters, or to treat upper case or lower case as either different or the same, among other things. 

For the v101 transliteration, I need to keep the numbers in, also distinguish between upper and lower case, and a special complication is that the high-ascii codes are conflicting with standard unicode usage, so I had to convert these to UTF-8 two-byte codes. Of course, I checked that these were properly recognised when computing the statistics. Just to be clear: preparing the text took more time and effort than actually computing the numbers.

So please refrain from confusing people by repeatedly presenting invalid numbers that have already been pointed out by two independent and coinciding results.

The ball is now in your court to double-check that the tool you used properly handled the above-mentioned points.
Or you can also just believe us.
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Split: Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 08-07-2026, 01:08 AM
Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 10-07-2026, 01:17 AM
RE: Entropy digression - by Stefan Wirtz_2 - 10-07-2026, 01:10 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by DG97EEB - 10-07-2026, 01:49 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by eggyk - 10-07-2026, 05:35 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by DG97EEB - 10-07-2026, 11:41 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 10-07-2026, 11:53 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by Stefan Wirtz_2 - 11-07-2026, 12:14 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by nablator - 11-07-2026, 10:05 AM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by DG97EEB - 11-07-2026, 10:39 AM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 11-07-2026, 11:52 AM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by nablator - 11-07-2026, 11:58 AM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 11-07-2026, 12:02 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by nablator - 11-07-2026, 12:14 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 11-07-2026, 12:16 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by ReneZ - 11-07-2026, 12:19 PM
RE: Split: Entropy digression - by Stefan Wirtz_2 - 11-07-2026, 12:55 PM

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