Does anyone know of a study that has calculated the frequency of math symbols based on some popular mathematics journals or math corpus?
For example in English you have letter frequencies of the most common english documents.
Obviously the list is much larger in Mathematics, but it would be interesting to see what characters are used the most in mathematics. (This question might be better fit for meta.math.stackexchange.com, stackoverflow.com or even mathematica.stackexchange.com)
Question: Does anyone know of a frequency table that plots out the frequency of math symbols based on mathematic journals or a math corpus?
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I don't think so for the specific symbols. It would vary so widely from topic to topic that it would be a bit pointless.
Nate Eldrige at Cornell did a fair amount of frequency analysis on words and phrases that come up in maths papers in order to come up with this delightful ruse.