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  • Conventional statistical methods for analysing scripts calculate the entropy or "orderedness" of the symbols: Shakespeare's prose would have a higher entropy than Egyptian hieroglyphs or Morse code, for example.

    New Scientist - Online News 2010

  • When aimed at language, this statistical technique comes up with a measure for the "orderedness" of words, letters or characters - from totally ordered to utterly random.

    New Scientist - Space 2009

  • When aimed at language, this statistical technique comes up with a measure for the "orderedness" of words, letters or characters - from totally ordered to utterly random.

    New Scientist - Earth 2009

  • These have been understood to mirror both the orderedness and the ‘freedom’ of complex reality.

    God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan William Harryman 2009

  • Scholars centuries before had intuited enough about information as orderedness to develop a remarkably similar probabilistic approach to recovering original text from corrupt copies.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John L. Cisne et al. 2010

  • How long he concentrated on that Kharl was not sure, except that a good quarter glass had passed, and the nail was darker-not quite with the smooth orderedness of the staff's black iron, but far more ordered and" solid.

    Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004

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