VMs: Number encoding as central to the code...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

ATM, one of the things I'm trying to determine is: what would the simplest 
possible solution to the Voynich look like? (As Occam's Razor would point 
to that being the most likely.)

Currently, my best candidate is: a number code (where the numbers are 
steganographically hidden) plus a stripped-down supporting alphabet. That's 
where I'm working my way up from. :-)

Justification: if (like me) you suspect that both EVA <ccc> and EVA <iii> 
code for Roman "III", why on earth would such a tiny core cipherbet include 
*two* different ways of coding numbers... unless one was for a number code 
and the other for actual numbers?

Comments?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....