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VMs: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Information lost!

Marke wrote: 

It would be very instructive to learn whether 1900 near equal words
could be explained by "chance" alone.

That's what I'm saying. They can't.

As I now understand, the 1900 word pairs you mentioned are actually pairs of words occurring next to each other in the VMs text. I was under the impression (as said there) you meant pairs of words from the Voynich lexicon differing by one letter. Probably caused because I was looking into this case already myself....

Ofcourse this requires a different simulation, one you did as you went on to say.


(1) Create a function which measures the similarity of neighbouring words.
(2) Apply the function to the whole VMs text and note the overall 'score'.
(3) randomise the word order and rescore.

(4) repeat (3) and see how many randomisations it takes before you
   get a similar score (or higher) than the original.

If the number of exact pairs and similar pairs were due to chance alone
then it wont take long to match the original score.

What you'll find is that neither the exact pairs, or the similar pairs are
occurring by chance.

Something is promoting the similarity of neighbouring words.

Marke

P.S.  I stopped my process after 2 million randomisations without coming
close to matching the original score.


Yes, we'll have to look for that "something else" then...

Ger



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