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The practical working set of English is about 60,000 words. In theory, every word does not need to be more than four characters (26^4 = 456K). But we don't do
by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
The practical working set of English is about 60,000 words. In theory, every word does not need to be more than four characters (26^4 = 456K).
But we don't do that. Because the brain needs redundancy. Ditto source code.
- avmich 4y agoSomehow math notation seems not to fit to this theory.