• Generally, it is said that one English word is equivalent to two Japanese characters.

  • English has 26 characters, while Japanese has more characters.

    • If we compare the information quantity of one English word and one Japanese character, it might be that one English word is equal to two Japanese characters.
    • Also, I’m curious about how far we can include Japanese characters to balance with one English word, considering that the frequency of Japanese characters is not uniform.
  • Average word length in English:

  • Average information quantity per character:

    • English: -log(1/26) = 4.7
    • Japanese: -log(1/
  • This could be a topic for Math IA, but it’s outside the syllabus, so I’m a bit scared.

  • #might implement it.