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I calculated out a redundancy of 1.36 bits per glyph. Taking that at face value, it would mean the space of possible glyphs is about 2.5 times the space of used
by IIAOPSW 5y ago
I calculated out a redundancy of 1.36 bits per glyph. Taking that at face value, it would mean the space of possible glyphs is about 2.5 times the space of used glyphs. Is "between 2 and 3 times as many letters as there currently are" congruent with what you consider "tons more information"? If so, we haven't actually contradicted each other on any matters of fact. Just on matters of what it subjectively means to have "tons more information".
1 bit of error correction for 5.6 bits of information sounds pretty good.
- ivegotnoaccount 5y agoThe amount of "unused" glyphs is not the 128 - "used glyphs" since you put several together. You would need to count the number of distinct 7-segment combinations that bear a glyph for this to hold.
- user-the-name 5y agoThat is the redundancy after you completely changed the alphabet, though. It is not the redundancy of the actual alphabet that people use, which is far, far higher.
- IIAOPSW 5y agoi made 2 letters look slightly different, threw up my hands on how to write 3, and ignored capitalization. that's not "conpletely changed". what other redundancy are you saying i've thrown out?
- user-the-name 5y ago7-segment letters look significantly different from regular letters. No curved lines, for one.