... is the indeterminacy which arises from the mapping of a continuous territory onto a chart with a finite resolving power; it is not the result of an intrinsically indeterminate use of a discrete ... urgently in MT, be- cause of the great bulk of the material to be stored, but the mathematical problems it pre- sents are the same as in other fields, except where, as in the use of thesaurus ... must be in order to contain, with a given fiducial probability, all the words of particular kinds of text. A secondary application is in finding some way of arranging the entries of a diction-...