The statistics of meaning: Darwin, Gibbon and Moby Dick

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 Zanette loo...

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Published in:Significance
Main Authors: Montemurro, Marcelo, Zanette, Damián
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2009
Subjects:
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White whale
Online Access:https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/4b0640ee-0914-4dc5-8188-834ab14111d7
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00390.x
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spelling ftumanchesterpub:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/4b0640ee-0914-4dc5-8188-834ab14111d7 2023-11-12T04:27:56+01:00 The statistics of meaning: Darwin, Gibbon and Moby Dick Montemurro, Marcelo Zanette, Damián 2009-12 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/4b0640ee-0914-4dc5-8188-834ab14111d7 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00390.x eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Montemurro , M & Zanette , D 2009 , ' The statistics of meaning: Darwin, Gibbon and Moby Dick ' , Significance , vol. 6 , no. 4 , pp. 165-169 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00390.x article 2009 ftumanchesterpub https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00390.x 2023-10-30T09:16:00Z 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 Zanette look at words and the information they contain. © 2009 The Royal Statistical Society. Article in Journal/Newspaper White whale The University of Manchester: Research Explorer Gibbon ENVELOPE(-45.200,-45.200,-60.667,-60.667) Significance 6 4 165 169
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