Re: VMs: Number crunching the Fincher window

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

In addition, I wonder about the mechanical difficulties of such an approach. 
 It strikes me that anything placed on our copy of the VMs while the scribe 
was writing would create a mess (wet ink, blotting, etc.).  At the very 
least I would expect to see some visible evidence of such activity, however 
microscopic it might be.  If such measures were taken, then I could imagine 
possibly two additional copies of the manuscript, one in the author's 
language of choice, and the other a working draft prior to trasposing to the 
final copy.  Very tedious work, no doubt fraught with potential mistakes, 
making the work of the scribe that more complex.  I also wonder about the 
fact that there are signs that the VMs does not appear to have been 
completed (unlabeled jars/sprigs in the pharmaceutical section), which makes 
me think that our VMs was a "working copy" in progress.


Regards,
Dana Scott





> From: "Marke Fincher" <markefincher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: VMs: Number crunching the Fincher window
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:24:04 +0100
>
>
> Sorry guys,  let me clarify my own use of some terms.
>
> 'master sequence'  = a line of text on a page over which the
> rectangular window moves to select sections from.
>
> 'subsequence ' = a string in the VMs text which is a subset of
> a master sequence.
>
> The idea that the movement of the window might be a means of
> encoding a secret message is not really part of my hypothesis.
>
> It is theoretically possible, but stretches credibility to the
> limit.  Can you imagine what would be involved in trying to decode
> such a system, even with a copy of the underlying text in your
> hand???   The other impracticality of such a system is that one or
> two plaintext chars would be encoded as a whole sequence of coded
> chars, leading to a coded text that was maybe 8x bigger than the
> plaintext!!!
>
> Marke
>
>
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