Re: VMs: Codex Seraphinianus available again?

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Landini wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 8:15 pm, Robert Antony Hicks wrote:
>
> > I have seen some pages from it - there is a website somewhere.  I'm not
> > sure what we can learn from the codex; to me it is immediately obvious that
> > the text is only pseudo-text, glossalalic at best, and has no structure or
> > method.  It would look good on a coffee table all the same!
>
> Yes, it may "look" unstructured, but wasn't the numbering system cracked? (I 
> seem to recall that it was base 31 or something like that?)

You thought it was base 31 two years ago when we discussed
it before. :)  In fact, it's base 21, and this is covered
in the archives on 4 Jan 2000.  We discussed it at several
points earlier, including 1991 and before, and 21-22 Sep 1998,
when Jacques discussed his investigations of uppercase letters.

It does indeed look good on a coffee table, but the cover was
a poor choice for people who have mothers-in-law who visit
regularly and are shocked by naughty bits of people.

These searches will be easier when the archives are threaded!
--
	Jim Gillogly
	Sterday, 7 Afteryule S.R. 2003, 16:24
	12.19.9.15.13, 10 Ben 6 Kankin, Seventh Lord of Night

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