Re: VMs: RE: King Tut Word Game, or the EKT Hypothesis

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 July 2003 03:42, Dennis wrote:
> 	I don't quite understand, Gabriel.   "Self-replicating
> strings
> like the 'ana' sequence", do you mean palindromic
> sequences?

Actually similar to Lindenmeyer systems (L-systems) which are self-replicating 
grammars (and used to model many biological structures).
The "ana" sequence is a recursive spelled description of the string.
You start with "a" and you describe "an a" (meaning a letter a",
then first recursion is anaannana" (i.e. an "a" an "n"  an "a").
and so on ad nauseam. 

> "Symbolic long-range correlations", do you mean bound
> morphemes like word  affixes, parallel phrases like rhetorical periods, or
> something else?

At the symbol level, looking for patterns of equal-symbol occurrences. 
Meaningful texts seem to have certain caracteristics, while word-scrambled 
and symbol-scrambled loose some of these.
http://web.bham.ac.uk/g.landini/evmt/cryptol.pdf

Cheers,

Gabriel

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