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Re: VMs: My collected notes



Philip you have an errant closing table marker on your page so that your
javascript is not being interpreted properly! The document.write is
displayed on the page.

Sorry to be pedantic but I can't help noticing bugs.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 29 February 2004 14:56
Subject: RE: VMs: My collected notes


>
>
>
> >From: "Marianna Hiltunen" <marianna.hiltunen@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> >I am a physicist and an astronomer, and I took my first look at the
Voynich
> >Manuscript about six months ago. Since then, it has been my hobby, and
> >I thought it could be useful to someone if I put my notes in the web;
they
> >are at:
> >http://www.astro.helsinki.fi/~marianna/notes1.txt
> >
> >I realize that many of the ideas I have may probably been discovered by
> >others, but I just have not found the paper/web page where they have
> >been published. Anyway, I thought I'd share my thoughts. I am
> >also planning to run some statistical tests when I have time;
> >unfortunately,
> >I am currently very busy with my work, so it might take several months.
>
> Welcome to the list Marianna! You have covered a lot of ground in only six
> months. The Roman numerals idea and the Arabic roots idea occur to just
> about everybody and they simply don't work, but I am pleased to have an
ally
> on the subject of the internal patterning of the words: I have so often
said
> that the reason for the redundancy becomes clear if you put gaps between
> the characters:
>
> http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/103r.html
>
> But how can you generate something like that from meaningful plaintext?
> I have been wondering for years.
>
> Philip Neal
>
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