LIX
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LIX is a readability measure
Readability test
For the main article, see ReadabilityReadability tests, readability formulas, or readability metrics are formulae for evaluating the readability of text, usually by counting syllables, words, and sentences. Readability tests are often used as an alternative to conducting an actual statistical...

 indicating the difficulty of reading a text developed by Swedish scholar Carl-Hugo Björnsson. It is computed as follows:

LIX = A/B + (C x 100)/A, where

A = Number of words

B = Number of periods (defined by period, colon or capital first letter)

C = Number of long words (More than 6 letters)

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