Re: VMs: Re: Context sensitive encoding

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PS: note that the observation about the third or fourth letter in a "word" 
containing a lot of information could (IIRC) could be an indication that a 
tight coupling between the first two glyphs exists... which would be 
perfectly consistent with a pair-coding scheme.

My thought for the day is to take a page or two of Italian text from circa 
1500 and "syllabify" it from the point of view of a syllabic cipher-maker - 
what does the frequency distribution of the resulting dataset look like, 
and how does that distribution match up with the distribution of a typical 
pair-set rendering from the VMS? ie, do the pair-centric stats of the VMS 
match up at all with a typical syllabic data-set rendering?

It could be that the code-maker had also been exposed to Hebrew, which 
(syllable-wise) would have been the closest match to Japanese circa 1500 - 
certainly, there are many documented links between Jews and code-making at 
that time (if not many actual examples of gematria-driven codes in 
practical use).

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

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