Re: VMs: Strange pair statistics

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
on 16 January 2004 07:26


> Zitat von Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >... Below is the count for the occurance of each pair within a word.
> >
> > yc 41
> > yd 45
> > rc 13
> >
> > And again the total counts for all occurances.
> >
> > yc - 252
> > yd - 213
> > rc - 207
> >
> > These three pairs are acting in the opposite manner to all other pairs
> > this high in the occurance count table. Would this happen in a
> > language? ...
> > Jeff
> >
> >
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> A few possibilities which come the mind of the naive reader:
>
> *) Spaces may not be word delimiters, but also encoded characters, ie
> the "space" may represent a different letter (but I think considering a
space
> as "just another letter" is a fairly modern notion), and actually you'd
have to
> look at triplets like "y<space>c".
>

I don't believe spaces are standins for characters. They would be too
popular.

> *) Spaces were inserted at random to confuse us, and the original text was
> justastringwithnospaceswhatsoever.
>

This is what I believed until finding this pattern.

> *) One of my pet theories is that within a word you have to read the
letters
> backwards.
>

This I have considered for a long while and would tend to agree. I have
found words by
scanning forwards, but who knows?

> *) German for example used to have two different ways/characters to
represent
> the letter "s". Perhaps this is the case here. (I don't know if any other
> languages have similar features.)
>

I do not believe this is the reason. Again too many occurances.

> And finally Barlow's Golden Rule:
>
> *) Don't be mislead by statistics: In any reasonably large sample, there
is a
> high probability for improbable things to happen.
>

And of course it depends upon the language and encoding method. :-)

> Cheers,
>
>    Elmar
>
>
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