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01/30/2004 01:23:57 PM · #1 |
The Phamonenal Pweor of the hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Fciknug amzanig huh?
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01/30/2004 01:28:42 PM · #2 |
The joy of studying communications theory...
English (and no doubt most other languages) is really redundantly
encoded. So you can scramble it and recover relatively easily.
In an information theoretic sense it has a low entropy.
Both the word order and letter order within a word has a lot of
redundancy so that words can recovered due to context and letters
transposed back to more meaningful orders.
If English were maximally encoded, every letter would be equally likely
to occur in every word, and it would be a much harder language to learn!
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