Is there any protocols to identify what sort of document MS-408 is?
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(17-07-2026, 09:01 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Conversely, if h0 is greater than h1, one can lower h0 without changing the length of the message by encoding each letter with a simple cipher that depends on the previous letter.  For example, suppose the plaintext strictly alternates between the "consonants" K,T and the "vowels" A, O, and KA,KO,TA,TO  have the same frequency (~25%).  Then h0 will be ~2 bits/letter but h1 will be ~1.  Then one can lower h0 to ~1 by replacing K☛A, T☛O except at the first letter of each word.

Can we say that a low H0 is not itself evidence of low information content or of non-language? 
An encoding choice can easily depress symbol-level entropy while keeping the overall information rate of the message completely intact—effectively just redistributing how that entropy is packaged.

Would that be also a correct interpretation of the above?
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RE: Is there any protocols to identify what sort of document MS-408 is? - by Pointless.. - 17-07-2026, 09:21 AM

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