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
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
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
> dis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:44:30 -0600
Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mayan.htm
>
An interesting web site, which also contains the following
crypto-relevant statement:
Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw
and C
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 he
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
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 languag
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> 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 lo
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 wi
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 any
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 the relative entropy
of other alphabetic languages? What about the en
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