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On 12 Feb 97 at 8:08, Jean VALENTIN wrote:

> It shows that these three mss disagree in many instances, specially when 
> it comes to matres lectionis. And, of course, this raises the inevitable 
> remark that this theory of equidistant letters works only with one text. 

I wonder if it is appropriate to describe the equidistant letters 
matter as a theory, since what is being reported is a result, and as 
far as I know, no particular theory was advanced in the statistical 
articles to account for the result.  

The fact that results of this kind are obtainable only with one text 
is not an objection to the results, in effect it is a confirmation of 
the statistical analysis that the effects are such that could not 
have resulted from mere chance.



Lewis Reich
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