Punctuation in literature of major languages is intriguingly mathematical
by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences
Hazard functions represent the probability of using a punctuation mark as a function of the length of the sequence without these marks. In terms of punctuation, the most 'cross-linguistic' is German (green chart). Credit: Source: IFJ PAN
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