Rene,
to me it doesn't really make any difference, if the complete text is encoded in numbers or alpha only.If it's numbers ony, this would in fact just add one layer of complexness to the whole thing.Nothing towards or against a solution.But what would worry me, is a mixed encoding scheme or ambivalent usage of chars.This IMHO would increase the complexity in an order of magnitude and would make a solution ambiguos (as it happened in the past).
Cheers
Claus
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Von: Rene Zandbergen [mailto:r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juni 2002 12:48
An: voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: VMs: Re: VMs as Numbers
Maybe not. The text could be entirely made up
of numbers. And the Greek alphabet used all
27 characters to build up numbers, since '1'
used to denote unity was a different symbol
than that to represent ten or a hundred.
Ancient astronomical texts used a 60-base
numbering scheme which could also require more
than 10 different symbols.