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Letter: Correction

Published 8 December 2001

The Voynich manuscript is approximately 234,000 characters, not
words as stated in the article. The total number of “words” (word-like strings
of characters separated by a space) is about 40,000, and there is a vocabulary
of about 8200 unique words.

Issue no. 2320 published 8 December 2001

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