Re: Re: VMs: voynich dice game ... sunday thoughts

[Marzio De Biasi <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 19.30 14/09/04, you wrote:
> 13/09/2004 9:39:51 PM, Marzio De Biasi <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Theorem:
> >spaces are not randomly inserted over a plain unencoded text (or over a
> >text encoded with a "space unaware" schema):
>
> >Proof:
> >if they were inserted randomly the frequencies distributions of these sets:
>
> >A={the characters in VM}, B = {the first characters of each word}, C = {the
> >last characters of each word}
>
> >should be almost the same ... but they are completely different. CVD
>
> Possibly. It seems rational enough. But wait... what of Arabic?
> Spaces are not inserted at word breaks, but are the effect of some
> letters being able to connect to the next, or to the previous, and
> some not being able to. The same Arabic text, in Roman spelling
> (as Maltese, an Arabic dialect, is spelt) have spaces between words.
> By "Arabic" here, I also mean any writing system where some letters
> connect and some not, forcing the use of spaces inside words.
>
> Space insertion in such systems is not random, but it tells us
> nothing about what constitutes a word.

I agree with you 100%,
But my poor and UNUSEFUL theorem tells only that:
IF one is convinced that spaces ARE inserted randomly on an existing text 
(like I was a few days ago :-) THEN, when he removes 'em, he must deal with 
a piece of text that cannot be a simple unencoded text or a text encoded 
with a "space unaware" schema.
My theorem really says nothing in favour of random/unrandom spaces in VM.
Bye,
  Marzio



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