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Re: That character that looks like a 4



Nick Pelling wrote:
 
> You must admit that character combinations at the very start of page one
> that don't appear elsewhere sound suspiciously like a key sequence. :-/
> 
> Especially written immediately after a large-ish gallows. :-)
> 
> Perhaps statistically identifying similar blocks of unusual character
> combinations could be a way of finding plausible key sequences within the text?

Well, think of the Bible: b'reshith barah Elohim...  

How often does the character combination "b'reshith..." appear elsewhere
in the Bible? I haven't checked, but here is my guess: zero times. And the
Bible is a lot longer than the VMS. So...