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<grin> gotcha!
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/11/03 09:13PM >>> Hi Larry, At 20:03 11/06/2003 -0400, Larry Roux wrote: >Nick wrote: "...if there are numbers anywhere in there, we should have >found them by now, surely?" > >One could just as easily say "If there were words in there we should have >found them by now, surely" too. The same with glyphs. By your context the >Voy contains neither words nor numbers nor glyphs. So it MUST be a hoax. For my sins, I was being ironic: in future, I'll try to remember to flag this with an <IRONY> ... </IRONY> xml wrapper. :-) [*] So, rephrasing my original post: if there are any lightly-hidden numbers in the VMS, then we should have found them by now, surely? But if the VMS' code-maker was so smart as to make the rest of the coding system near-impenetrable, why make the numbers so easy to read? Personally, I like the idea of a <dain daiin daiiin daiun daun dauin> "steganographic apothecary" numbering system, as it's just about as sophisticated as I think we can deal with (much subtler and we probably don't stand a chance). :-) Incidentally, I noticed a number of (-us suffix?) words in Georg Hayniger's MS ending with a looped-back terminating character, quite similar to an EVA <n> - this might be quite a good match for "primus, secundus, tertius", etc. Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... [*] ...this sentence may of course be ironic too. :-) ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |