Re: VMs: Numb Erones & Brumbaugh

[Heikki Qvist <heikki.qvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have to check it out.

I was just saying that before stabilation numbers were "4" for 5, "^" 
for 7, "a damn knop loop" was for 4. I was just thinking was Brumbaugh 
using arabic numbers in the way we do, or in the way they did before 1500.

Florin wrote:
> I do remember something, on f57v on the second ring the distance
> between l(lambda)
> and ^ symbols is 2, also "l" was the number 4 and "^" was the number 7
> for the old numbering style.
>
>  .  l   .   .  ^  .
>  3 4  5  6  7 8
>
> Coincidence ?!
>
> Regards,
> Florin
>
> On 8/30/05, Heikki Qvist <heikki.qvist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I don't remember any more details about B's solution. But he gives VMS
> > char resembling the '4' as number four although it may better be number
> > 5. Maybe he was in right tracks.
> >
> > I has been wondering about number based cipher structures and early
> > western arabic numbers.
> >
> > I used this kind of system in school days to prevent "big boys" and
> > nosey teachers ("don't we want to share it with the whole class!") to
> > read my notebooks and diary:
> >
> > -It doesn't even require a key for encryption. Key would make it even
> > harder to open.
> > -Frequency analysis is useless.
> >
> > I could try to create a sample text mass for analysis to see how it
> > would look. Any similarities with VMS.
> >
> > Or someone might try to solve my sample message, just to see how hard it
> > is to decrypt.
> >
> >
> >
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