Re: VMs: Arguments against a code book?

[Elmar Vogt <elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:
> ...  However such stats do arise in roman numerals: exactly 50% of
> the numbers in 0-999 have a "V", exactly 50% have a "L", none have two
> "V"s or two "L"s, and there is zero correlation between these two
> traits...

A quick message:

Of course it is possible to conceive a scheme where Voynichese words are 
interpreted as Roman-like numerals, which would in turn be used as indices 
in a codebook, but this isn't really necessary.

After all, you can create words "at will" from the Voynichese alphabet, and 
use them as tokens to designate cleartext words. (Provided you devise some 
kind of order, you can even sort your word lists for faster reference. ;-) 
That would eliminate the intermediate step of interpreting them as numbers.

Just a note to avoid potential confusion between the codebook- and Roman 
numerals-hypotheses.

Cheers,

	Elmar

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