Re: VMS word length distribution article question

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    > I have a question on your VMS word length distribution article,
    > http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/00-12-21-word-length-distr/
    > where you are discussing the decimal codes of the words. I
    > have copied the second table below.
    > 
    > 10100 10101 10110 10111 11000 11001 11010 11011 11100 11101
    > 24#   024#  24#1  024#1   4#5  04#5  4#51 04#51  4#53 04#53
    >     
    > I understand the first 4
    > numbers. They are numbered from 0 to 4 going right to left. But
    > on the fifth number and on, position 0 and 1 still seem to be
    > there, but 2, 3 and 4 now seem to be 3,4 and 5. Am I missing
    > something here?

Oops, you are right.  The "decimal codes" should have been

10100 10101 10110 10111 11000 11001 11010 11011 11100 11101
24#   024#  24#1  024#1   4#3  04#3  4#31 04#31  24#3 024#3

Thanks for the correction...

All the best,

--stolfi