Re: VMs: Finding_02

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ...the <dain daiin daiiin> pattern aside, there seems to be nothing 
> obviously (structurally) consistent with Hebrew- (or Greek-) style 
> numbering to be found anywhere.

...to be more precise, the <ain aiin aiiin> pattern seems to me most likely 
to be some form of steganographic Roman numerals: and as I don't see the 
evidence for the VMS' being an obviously mono-alphabetic cipher, I don't 
buy into Teague numbering either.

FWIW, my best current prediction for the core code is that it is based on a 
paired cipher (intermediate in complexity between the 1440 one in D'Imperio 
and the Alphabethe Northmanique in Vigenere), encoding a vowel-less 
shorthand system (similar to Ratcliffe's, the only obvious precursor to 
Bright's characterie), and reusing some kind of early-modern wax-tablet 
tachygraphic alphabet (for speed of encoding). I'm not sure how gematria 
would fit into such a scheme, based on contemporary ideas - but perhaps it 
will become clear in time. :-) 


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