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Is there a correlation between number of words and knowledge?
Sanskrit has 1000X more words than any other language.
Sanskrit has 1000X more words than any other language.
https://www.thehitavada.com/Encyc/2021/8/22/The-status-and-place-of-Sanskrit-language-in-modern-India.amp.html. What a dictionary has is not all for Sanskrit especially because the effort has been always siloed. Anyways, the logic of compunding and infliction can render most of the dictionaries to a few pages.\n","updatedAt":"2024-05-15T01:02:17.972Z","author":{"avatarUrl":"/avatars/7983011d733db344fc07f5e98e49f37f.svg","fullname":"Prabhat","name":"prabhatkr","type":"user","isPro":false,"isHf":false}},"numEdits":0,"editors":["prabhatkr"],"reactions":[],"identifiedLanguage":{"language":"en","probability":0.8768153786659241},"isReport":false,"parentCommentId":"664401b6b5a21591717bfb85"}},{"id":"66442c29ad3ec61f329a1536","author":{"avatarUrl":"https://cdn-avatars.huggingface.co/v1/production/uploads/6533ec44a2c81a3d2979b4d2/QAVIo5GOxyvC9qmJ6yJy6.jpeg","fullname":"FumesAI","name":"FumesAI","type":"user","isPro":false,"isHf":false},"createdAt":"2024-05-15T03:29:45.000Z","type":"comment","data":{"edited":false,"hidden":false,"latest":{"raw":"At last computers computers understand 0 and 1 :) ","html":"
At last computers computers understand 0 and 1 :)
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As the root of the proto-indo-European language tree I thought all of our European languages came from it but the Sanskrit Heritage Dictionary has around 180k words, so it might be something smaller like token representations counting inter-combinations of symbols. If you count compound words and infleccted forms then you could probably say Sanskrit has maybe millions of words but probably not billions.. Looks like a language model hallucination to me :)
Cute scholarly noise. Here is the link https://www.thehitavada.com/Encyc/2021/8/22/The-status-and-place-of-Sanskrit-language-in-modern-India.amp.html. What a dictionary has is not all for Sanskrit especially because the effort has been always siloed. Anyways, the logic of compunding and infliction can render most of the dictionaries to a few pages.
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