The Mathematical Intrigue of Punctuation in Major Languages' Literature.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phys.org
Recent statistical analyses of literature written in seven major Western languages reveal that punctuation is a universal and indispensable complement to the mathematical perfection of every language studied. The statistical features of punctuation usage patterns have been observed in several hundred works, and the same distribution of punctuation marks was found in all the languages studied. The Weibull distribution was used to describe the statistical distribution of the distance between consecutive punctuation marks, and German punctuation was found to combine the punctuation features of many languages, making it a kind of Esperanto punctuation.