Re: VMs: Operators

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

At 00:18 21/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> I have found various sequences in the transliteration that act as operators
> and have no other function. At these junctions the characters of the cipher
> text are interpreted differently. Building a table of frequencies I have
> found that distributions follow straight lines fairly rigidly and would
> suggest a table lookup with operator modification. Nothing I have seen yet
> seems to veer from my original conclusions. I will be working on the
> functionality of these operators from now on as they are vital to the
> decipherment. As for the alphabet and which glyphs represent individual
> characters, this is totally irrelevant. I know that many people on the list
> would tend to disagree but I have very good reasons for coming to this
> conclusion. The statistics do not vary with interpretation. The method does
> not need to know this.
>
> Any comments welcome.

Please feel free to post any results - whether statistical (quantitative) 
or structural (qualitative) - to the list (we like detail a lot). 
Interpretation is almost without doubt the hardest part - but having a 
number of other eyes check your results (and methodology, as well as your 
terminology) is the greatest "sanity check" of all. Statistics themselves 
are only ever part of the whole story. :-o

For example: it may well be that what you mean by "operators" (having read 
your email, I'm not sure myself) are well-known phenomena here (though 
probably under another name) - or they may be completely new.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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