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The Entropy of Written Italian

The entropies to the fourth order and the word entropy, with and without space symbol (blank), of an Italian text are calculated. The obtained value of the fourth order entropy shows that a redundancy of about 53% is exhibited by the text.

Luigi M. Ricciardi | Renato M. Capocelli

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