----- Original Message -----
Sent: 05 December 2003 14:30
Subject: Re: VMs: Artificial voynich -
Its time to put up !!!!
Jeff,
if you do decide to check out the book by Bennet there is a copy for sale
on abebooks web site for only £4 (in the US though):
1. Bennett, William Ralph, Jr.
Scientific and Engineering
Problem-Solving with the Computer
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1976.
457 pp, hardback, ex library,
cover worn at edges, hinge weak, else gd+.
Bookseller Inventory #292194
Best wishes,
Brett
Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nick
Pelling incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Jeff,
>
> At
18:42 04/12/2003 +0000, Jeff wrote:
> >Correction! The statistics
are ALL derived from EVA and not an Italian
plain
> >text. YOU
HAVE ALL misunderstood what I have done. Remember Jon Grove's
>
>attempt at encoding genesis? Well I have gone the other way. I
have
mapped
> >all the routes through the EVA for valid
combination sequences. So Nick?
> >What do you say
now?
>
> Of course you derived your *tables* from the VMs'
statistics (rather, from
> trying to match those statistics to your
idea of how Quattrocento Italian
> text 'works').
>
>
However, I was under the impression that you were using an actual
Italian
> plaintext to re-create your VMs lookalike text (ie, to feed
back into the
> tables), and! those were the statistics to which I was
referring. If not,
> what *are* you using to generate your
Voynichese-like text? Weighted
random
> numbers?
>
>
Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
Go here
http://www.georgeboolefanclub.com/vmstextgenerator.html
:-)
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