Chinese character frequency and entropy

1 · John Cook · Oct. 18, 2019, 1:16 p.m.
Yesterday I wrote a post looking at the frequency of Koine Greek letters and the corresponding entropy. David Littleboy asked what an analogous calculation would look like for a language like Japanese. This post answers that question. First of all, information theory defines the Shannon entropy of an “alphabet” to be bits where pi is […]...