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manoDev
on Feb 8, 2014
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New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery
> Statistical analysis of the text reveals patterns similar to those of natural languages. For instance, the word entropy (about 10 bits per word) is similar to that of English or Latin texts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
canjobear
on Feb 8, 2014
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Unfortunately, entropy measures don't reliably distinguish linguistic scripts from other symbol systems:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4652
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