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		coldtea on Aug 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage... >That's if you know 90% of the words No, I'm taking about the premise of the article: if you know 90% of the words most widely used (that is, the above 777 characters for example). Not 90% of the words in general. If you know the most likely words, you can more often than not guess the unknown words in a phrase from the context.

kazinator on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

I'm also talking about recognizing 90% in whatever text you're reading, not about knowing 90% of the lexicon!

My point is that those characters aren't words.

Well, some of them are, sometimes.

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