Re: VMs: Original encoding scheme

[Akinori Ito <aito@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:51:59 +0200
"PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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

I checked it. The result was:

Voyniches:  1952 out of 5817 words are anagrams of any other word (33.5%)
English:    4328 out of 45427 words are anagrams of any other word (9.5%)
(using /usr/share/dict/linux.words)

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

The hypothesis seems to be rejected:-)

Note that this calculation is based on EVA. If any other orthography 
(for example, Currier) were used, the result would change much.

Here is a list of words that have many anagrams:

7 chekody chokedy dcheoky dokechy ekchody kcheody ykechod
6 keeShy keShey kSheey Sheeky Shekey Shkeey
6 ekShy keShy kShey Sheky Sheyk Shkey
6 dolr dorl drol ldor lord rold
6 chkoy choky kchoy kochy ychok ykcho
6 chetody chotedy chteody dcheoty tcheody teodchy
6 cheoky choeky chokey keochy kochey ykecho
6 cheky chkey ekchy kchey kechy ychek
6 chekedy chkeedy dcheeky kcheedy kechedy keechdy
6 cheeky chekey chkeey kcheey kechey keechy
6 chdeey chedey cheedy dcheey echedy eechdy

-- 
Akinori Ito
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