id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-2938 Nugent, William R. Compression Word Coding Techniques for Information Retrieval 1968-12-01 11 .pdf application/pdf 3669 253 63 The following principle, not quite a theorem, applies: Considering letters in their normal ordinal alphabetic position, and considering letter transitions to be unidirectional and cyclic, the distribution of transition distances in English words is essentially uniform. ( 22,4,1,16,3,11) letter numbers distances ( 3 ) Associate with each transition distance a corresponding prime number. cache/ital-2938.pdf txt/ital-2938.txt