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Gallows bit sequences



    > [Bradley E. Schaefer:] I was just wondering if you could create
    > a series for each word identifying whether it has gallows and
    > tables? Are they Poissonly distributed? Do they always come in
    > foursomes? Are there significant deviations from 25% probability
    > over shorter scales than the whole MS? Is there any periodicity?
    > Do words of one type avoid or prefer words of different types?
    > In all, is there any further structure that might provide a key
    > to a code-book scheme?

I can answer the first question with "voilà":

  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/stats/bio.1.ast
  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/stats/hea.1.ast
  ...
  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/stats/txt.n.ast
  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/stats/lab.n.ast

The section names are the same I used in my previous message.
"txt.n" is the whole text minus labels, "lab.n" is all the labels.

In these files, each character, line, and paragraph corresponds to one
word, line, and paragraph of the VMS, respectively. The character is
"?" for bad words, or a digit N for a word with N gallows.

The corresponding words, one per line, are 

  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/word-seqs/bio.1.ast
  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/word-seqs/hea.1.ast
  ...                                                 
  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/word-seqs/txt.n.ast
  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/Notes/059/word-seqs/lab.n.ast

Here a blank line means VMS end-of-line ("-"), two blank lines
means VMS end-of-paragraph ("=").

I would rather not do the "tables" sequences right now; I am still
trying to decide what exactly is a table and what isn't. (e.g., should
I count the gallows platforms?)

As for the other answers, maybe another day...

All the best,

--stolfi