The Characteristic Curves of Composition

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall

Science· 1887-03-11· article· 425 citationsclosed

Abstract

AUGUSTUs DEMORGAN somewhere remarks (I think it is in his 'Budget of paradoxes') that some time somebody will institute a conmparison among writers m regard to the average length of ocrt I mean word-length suggested itself.The new method, while scarcely more laborious than that proposed by DeMorgan, promised to yield results more quickly and of a definitely higher order.It also had the advantage of including, in its ap-

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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1887). The Characteristic Curves of Composition. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ns-9.214s.237

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  title  = {The Characteristic Curves of Composition},
  author = {Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin},
  year   = {1887},
  journal = {Science},
  doi    = {10.1126/science.ns-9.214s.237}
}

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