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 M., Zanette D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2009
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information theory
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11585/770512
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