How Accurate Were Scribes? A Mathematical Model.
Until printing was invented, texts were copied by hand. The probability with which changes were introduced during copying was affected by the kind of text and society. We cannot usually estimate the probability of change directly. Instead, we develop an indirect method. We derive a relationship betw...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 311 - 323 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2002
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