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VMs: Number crunching the Fincher window
Cheers all,
Being intrigued by Marke's idea, I did a bit of number crunching.
Especially, I wanted to find out how many different sequences there were in
the text for various sequence lengths. So I took excerpts from the VM
transcript, removed line breaks (I left spaces in there), and had the
numbers of different sequences counted. I also performed a control with a
German text of similar length (32764 chars both times).
Here's what I got -- number of different sequences for different sequence
lengths:
Length VM German
4 4389 9435
5 8773 14949
6 14087 19623
7 19432 23443
8 23934 26264
9 27263 28237
10 29527 29609
11 30954 30543
12 31783 31187
13 32249 31651
14 32491 31964
15 32612 32190
16 32674 32346
(Note that this was a character-for-character examination.)
We seem to see that natural languages have a larger variety of short
sequences. At the same time, for longer sequences, the VM gets more varied,
until at a sequence length of 16, there were only 90 instances of phrases of
16 or more characters, which got repeated. (In German, we still had some 400
duplicates.)
(I don't really trust my little program on this one -- can anyone confirm or
deny?)
This seems to me to point to the hoax theory. If we assume a Fincher window
of less than 16 chars width, that would be what we'd expect -- Correlation
drops drastically as soon as the window width is reached. I had hoped though
for a more pronounced "drop" at the actual window length.
Or am I completely on the wrong track?
Elmar
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