VMs: Original encoding scheme

["PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alas, far too modern for the VMS, but in Eco's book I find an interesting
reference to Leibniz and his "Lingua Generalis".

In 1678 he proposed a decomposition scheme whereby concepts would be
decomposed into more simple ideas. Then these primary ideas would be
numbered and every number would be encoded into a pronounceable word like
this:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = b c d f g h l m n
10^0 10^1 10^2 10^3 10^4 = a e i o u

Then the number 81.374 would be encoded like "Mubodilefa". But since the
vowels have a fixed meaning in powers of ten, the same number could be
expressed as "Bodifalemu".

I wonder - how many VMS words are anagrams of each other? I would be quite
simple to check usingh the following algorithm:

split VMS into words
sort and determine unique words (in Unix : split | sort | uniq )
then sort the letters in each word and find the matches

My feeling is that there are not many anagram-words in Voynichese and that
this is a dead end :-)

Greetings, Petr


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