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VMs: magical voynich dice game
Hi,
While playing with unique occurrencies of sentences I decided to
do myself a word-length statistic.
I read (don't remember the author - excuse me) about the similarity
of the word length frequences distribution in VM and a gaussian curve
produced by two dice shifted by 1.
I play with two "virtual dice" and obtained the same result ... they
are similar ... BUT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.
But ... if the author of the VM gave special meanings to some of the
number obtained from the dice???
Well, I loaded my HD with hundreds of dice and tested all combinations
in wich one or more of the numbers 1..12 is considered a "special meaning"
number.
The result is that if we adopt this schema:
DICE VM WORD LENGTH
2 -> produce a word of length 1
3 -> produce a word of length 2
4 -> produce a word of length 3
5 SPECIAL MEANING
6 -> produce a word of length 4
7 -> produce a word of length 5
8 -> produce a word of length 6
9 SPECIAL MEANING
10 -> produce a word of length 7
11 SPECIAL MEANING
12 -> produce a word of length 8
(of course 11 and can be switched).
Well, with this schema, the frequences obtained ARE THE SAME
(with less than 1% of difference):
VM_WORD_LEN %FREQ VM %FREQ DICE WITH ABOVE SCHEMA (180000 tosses)
1 4.6 3.7
2 7.7 7.7
3 10.5 11.5
4 18.3 19.2
5 24.7 23.2
6 18.1 19.1
7 10.8 11.5
8 3.5 3.8
9 1.0 ???
10 0.2 ???
.. ... ...
As you can see some longer words are not included in the game
but they are < 2% of the total words.
Conclusions:
... uhm it's friday night, 20.30 PM ... let's turn off the pc.
Bye,
Marzio
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