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“Algebraic Theory of French Letters” (futilitycloset.com)
21 points by sohkamyung on Feb 19, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments




This reminded me of the great little paper "Homophonic Quotients of Free Groups" (https://eudml.org/doc/233741), which might also be considered an algebraic theory of French (and English) letters.


This is done via linear algebra, yes? As in, you have a 27xk (for some k) matrix with the one's of the l'th row corresponding to letters of l and zeros for the rest of indices. Reduce the matrix to reduced row echelon form. Increase k until you have an over-constrained equation. Repeat with multiple languages to have high success values.




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