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I.A. Al-Kadi. The origins of cryptology: the Arab contribution. Cryptologia 16 (1992) 97-126.
C. Shannon. Prediction and entropy of printed English. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 30 (1951) 50-64.
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D. Welsh. Codes and Cryptography. Oxford University Press (1988).
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Biggs, N.L. (2008). Coding natural languages. In: Codes: An Introduction to Information Communication and Cryptography. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-273-9_10
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