Re: VMs: vms sentences

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Petr,

At 22:30 07/02/2004 +0100, Petr Kazil wrote:
> Nick [wrote]:
> > We might also consider (for example) whether:-
> > (1) the first character of a paragraph is ornamental, misleading, or
> > part of a cipher-system
>
> There is an article here: http://neoref.ils.unc.edu/2683.pdf - Gallows
> Variants as Null Characters in the Voynich Manuscript.
> It says (based on entropy)  that gallows are part of the message and are not
> ornamental nor null characters.

Yes, that's Jason Morningstar's thesis - however, here we're talking about 
paragraph-initial gallows (rather than all gallows, IIRC?), which I think 
have quite different statistics.

What I (implicitly) suggested to Larry was that he might consider 
converting his instinctive understanding of paragraph-initial gallows into 
a model (and perhaps then into a piece of code) - and test it out! :-)

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


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