Bernard Ycart
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bernard Ycart is involved.
Articles
2013 Letter counting: A stem cell for cryptology, quantitative linguistics, and statistics Historiographia Linguistica 40:3, pp. 303–330 | Article
Counting letters in written texts is a very ancient practice. It has accompanied the development of cryptology, quantitative linguistics, and statistics. In cryptology, counting frequencies of the different characters in an encrypted message is the basis of the so called frequency analysis method. read more

