Re: VMs: Random Text Generation

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 19 Dec 2002 6:25 pm, Rob wrote:
> >If an algorithm can be created that approximates Voynichese so well that
> >the generated text matches real Voynichese to, say, 90% accuracy (based on
> >letter, bigraph, trigraph, word frequencies, zipf laws, etc) AND it is
> >simultaneously found to be impossible to create a similar algorithm with
> >the same accuracy for a real language, the implication would be that the
> >VMS's scribe(s) used some sort of random word generation system.

I cannot imagine a situation (in the vms context) in which one could *prove* 
that something is "impossible to be created with a similar algorithm".

Cheers,

Gabriel


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