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Egregore on May 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What determines word length? Not frequency after a...

Yes, but there is a tradition (at least in some languages) to name cycle variable as i for example: for (int i=0;i<n;i++).

Yahivin on May 23, 2011 [–]

This seems to bring additional evidence to the information content hypothesis: because it is common and expected it does not have a high information density.

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