Travis H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Sandy Harris wrote:
He starts from information theory and an assumption that
there needs to be some constant upper bound on the
receiver's per-symbol processing time. From there, with
nothing else, he gets to a
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Allen wrote:
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
language. Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words
that start with q it is very low indeed.
I seem to recall Shannon did some experiments which showed that with a
Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
language. Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words
that start with q it is very low indeed.
What about other languages? Does anyone know the relative entropy
of other alphabetic languages?
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:08:07PM -0600, Travis H. wrote:
IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian heiroglyphs were actually syllabic,
like Mesopotamian, so no fun there. Mayan, on the other hand, remains
an enigma. I read not long ago that they also had a way of recording
stories on bundles of
Travis H. wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Allen wrote:
[...]
What about other languages? Does anyone know the relative entropy of
other alphabetic languages? What about the entropy of ideographic
languages? Pictographic? Hieroglyphic?
IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Sandy Harris wrote:
He starts from information theory and an assumption that
there needs to be some constant upper bound on the
receiver's per-symbol processing time. From there, with
nothing else, he gets to a proof that the optimal frequency
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:53:16PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw
and Cheyenne served as radio operators, know as Code Talkers,
to keep communications secret during both World Wars. Welsh
speakers played a
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:46:41 -0800
Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi gang,
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a language.
Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words that start
with q it is very low indeed.
What about other languages? Does anyone know
