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2001 Jun 05
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11.82 bpw clarification (was Re: ssh-keygen(1) misinfo: English prose entropy 0.6 - 1.3 b/char!)
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A reasonable primer on Shannon's estimates of entropy.
http://www.stanford.edu/~vjsriniv/project/entropy_of_english_9.htm
Covers both of Shannon's methods for estimating H for English
(by character using n-grams, by word using Zipf's relations)
http://www.voynich.nu/wordent.html
"From digraph entropy to word entropy in the Voynich MS"
This is cited here because it relates bits per letter
and bits per word by the trivial relation of summing,
and because it's very cool. Note that for comparisons of
different lengths you need to pad each wo...