Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Tim Smith wrote:

> clustering" (see the Alexander Jablakov quote in my sig file).  On the
> other hand, maybe it's possible to take random data and create a
> pattern into which it can fit.  Although I know virtually nothing
> about information theory, it seems to me intuitively that this should
> work if the pattern is large enough relative to the amount of random
> data.  (As an extreme example, if there's only one data point, you
> should be able to fit it into any of a very large, perhaps infinite,
> number of patterns.)
There is a field of mathematics known as Ramsey theory which investigates
the necessity of having certain patterns - the standard pedagogical
example is that if you have 6 persons, either there are 3 of them who all
know each other or 4 who don't know each other.

For example, you could do something like this when investigating what
letters/sounds could occur together, although chances are that with a ver=
y
random sample all of them would.

Greetings,
=D8rjan.

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