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Letter counting: a stem cell for Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics
Bernard Ycart
Counting letters in written texts is a very ancient practice. It has accompanied the development of Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics. In Cryptology, counting fr…
math.HO2012★ 17 cited
Alberti's letter counts
Bernard Ycart
Four centuries before modern statistical linguistics was born, Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) compared the frequency of vowels in Latin poems and orations, making the first qua…