RE: VMs: Entropy, was WAR against EVA

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

All I meant to say is that the lack of finding certain letter combos together reduces (largely) the chance that Voy is a "random bit of characters".  This does not prove the VMS is not a hoax, but certainly reduces one  chance that it is. And darn, I wish it was so I could  stop thinking about the #*$& thing! <grin>   


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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/04/03 15:50 PM >>>
3/4/03 4:57:34 PM, Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>At 07:57 04/03/03 -0500, Larry Roux wrote:
>>There are Voynich glyphs that never appear next to each other.  The 
>>question is: is it due to the encryption scheme?  Or is it due to the 
>>author running an "e" into "i" to make "ch"?

>This is only one of the many features which differentiate Voynichese 
>(however you stroke it) from other languages.


Hey, hey, hey! Wait a minute. What feature do you mean? Voynich glyphs
never appearing next to each other? That is a feature of French, English,
Italian, Spanish, just about any language written in the Roman alphabet.
For instance, glyphs q and p never appear next to each other in English,
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, Swedish.... and so on.



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