The Statistics of Meaning: Darwin, Gibbon and Moby Dick

Abstract How concentrated is the information in Darwin's Origin of Species? How heavy a read is Gibbon's Decline and Fall? Where does a great white whale fit in? And what on earth is the mysterious Voynich manuscript that has baffled scholars for centuries? Marcelo Montemurro and Damián Za...

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Published in:Significance
Main Authors: Montemurro, Marcelo, Zanette, Damián
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2009
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00390.x
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