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golergka
on June 8, 2017
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Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age
Given limited set of sounds a human can pronounce, and a natural tendency to keep the most common words small, can we calculate a probability of such a coincidence? Because it seems to me it's probably a classic birthday paradox example.
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