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Entropy of other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen)
Mon Feb 5 16:40:06 2007
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:46:41 -0800
From: Allen <netsecurity@sound-by-design.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <45C59A5A.5000203@pgpru.com>
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 entropy of
ideographic languages? Pictographic? Hieroglyphic?
Thanks,
Allen
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