Re: Re: VMs: Further investigatio of folio f1r

["Jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis,  



======= At 2004-04-05, 12:37:00 you wrote: =======
 
>	A brief comment here about transposition ciphers. 
>Transposition ciphers seem very unlikely to me due to
>the low second-order character entropy of VMs text and
>the highly structured nature of Voynichese words.  
>
Hey, now I have something to blame - that's why I could not get anywhere! :-). But seriously - I did compare the "letter" frequency of the VM transcript (EVA)  with letter frequency of 
medieval Latin by St. Augustin (in his Confessions, Book 1, http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/latinconf/ ,
and got interesting correlation at http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/ohlas/VM/b16.htm

Since we can rely more on high frequency letters, the Latin there was much closer to the VM frequency than I ever expected. I also gave it to my colleague in  Germany to recalculate it independently, but he got the same results. We can also see that the medieval  English - or few other languages I tried  - are far off  - again in the area where it counts most. 

Mind you, it was letter frequency,  not word frequency, which of course lead our linguists to look for unknown language :-). Now our observation would point to either monoalphabetic substitution cipher, OR transposition cipher (even multiple) OR the  combination of both. I think we gave up Latin too easy,

Jan 


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Jan
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