Re: VMs: Voynich.csv

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:49, Jeff wrote:
> The following is a table of letter pairs. Where the word chokain would be
> split thus:
>
> ch ho ok ka ai in n.
>
> The period marks a space and is used to mark frequency of letters either
> beginning of ending words. 

If I understood correct, this is a 1st order transition probability table: 
given character "x" find the frequencies all other characters following it. 
This has been done many times before on the vms, not only for first order, but 
for higher orders as well.
Can I point you to read about entropy in language? Bennett's book is not only 
very good, but also has simple computer code listings, transition probability 
tables, and a couple of pages on the VMS and its entropy content.
You may also find quite a few threads on this type of analysis in the list 
archives.

Cheers,

Gabriel


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