Re: D!

[Steve Ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

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 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:27:31 -0800 (PST)
 From: Adams Douglas <adamsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Cc: voynich@xxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: D!
 
 Jacques Guy wrote:
 > Now, if the assessment time could be brought down to
 > one tenth of a second, that would only be 6 years
 > and a bit. Any  volunteers? No? All right, let's
 > make it *only*  8 hours a day, but you'll have to be
 > at it for about 10 years, though.
 
Adam writes:
 Ah wait, I have a better idea. The easy way to decide if a text is in a known language is
 match text chunks against a word-list of that language. Random text would only give a few
 hits, but text in that language would generate >90% hits (we'll assume some unincluded
 words).
 
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 YES !  I AGREE.  BUT, (ha.haa <--- There's THAT "but")  What IF it is
an "artificial language?"  Where do you send your "check - chunks" for 
comparison?   Actually, I thought of that one too - since I know but 1
language (that, even not too well)... and didn't know how many
dictionaries to down load,  "infinite computer banks etc..."

-=se=-
Best to you & your's
steve (we ARE _closing_ in on it though) ekwall