Hi Robert,
I think the character itself doesn'tr really matter, it'm more the position which counts (IMHO).
In my other email I showed some typical German words, which only differ in the first char.And the first char of such sequence is a consonant.Maybe, I should do the statistcs and regarding the token relative position at the same time.
Claus
PS: As I'm using awk very much at my job, I can do such number crunching without really thinking about it.It goes naturally from my fingertips.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Robert Antony Hicks [mailto:rob_hicks_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. Februar 2003 16:34
An: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: VMs: results from a modified algorithm: (was Trying to
create a test for letter 'value')
Fascinating! And thanks, Claus, for saving me a lot of effort - I guess you
do this sort of thing for a living then?
It's interesting that the top 5 (oldys) are the letters that intuitively
(and, if I recall correctly, statistically) are vowel-like.
My plan for this stuff is to look at the characteristics of candidate
languages for the VMS. If, as I anticipate, the value 'polygons' of Latin,
English, Hebrew, etc, are vastly different, then we might be able to match
VMS text in some way. If the VMS contained an abbreviated form of a
language, we should still be able to identify it because, inevitably, the
abbreviated form would retain the letters with the highest value. (E.g. in
English, "Th qck brwn fx jmps vr th lzy dg" is a far more likely abbreviated
form than "e ui o o u oe e a o").
Rob
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