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Aura Index
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| Latin Uppercase | $1.34 \pm 0.08$ | Angularity and Stroke Termination | Heavily influenced by the ascender/descender ratio. |
| Cuneiform Logograms | $2.11 \pm 0.15$ | Density) and Internal Compartmentalization | High $\mathcal{A}$ due to inherent ambiguity of stroke parallelism. |
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Venetian Scribes
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The official script, Corsivo Ducale, was developed to maximize data density. Its defining feature is the near-total omission of vowels in abbreviated technical terms, a practice which forced readers to rely heavily on contextual inference derived from associated ledger notations. For example, the word for 'cargo' (carrico) was often rendered simply as 'CRRC'.
A significant orthographic oddity relates to the scribes’ treatment of numerical transcription. They never employed standard Roman numerals for currency larger than 500 *[ducat…