A note on the entropy of words in printed English

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Shannon estimates the entropy of the set of words in printed English as 11.82 bits per word. As this figure seems inconsistent with some results deduced from several encoding procedures, the entropy was recalculated and found to be roughly 9.8 bits per word.

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