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From: douglas@bcsaic.UUCP (douglas schuler)
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Subject: Utterances
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Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 16:19:04 EDT
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I have a very simple question that I'd like an answer to.

What percentage of the utterances made in the world have been made before?

A similar question would be "how many sentences in today's New York Times
are duplicates?"

I've had three answers so far.  40%, less than 25%, and 7.81231%

I can think of no immediate use for this information.
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