f57v - moon synodic period

[Anton]

Based on the fact that I am not an expert in anything, just an ordinary person, I decided to publish this comment because it seemed a coincidence that it can mean something if on this page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the numbers 18 and 531 appear

It's perfectly OK to share your suggestions (that's what the forum is for!), and there are many people here who are not experts in anything Voynich-related (myself included!), so that's also not a problem Without being an expert in-depth, one still can apply observation, logic and solid reasoning, those are common tools available to all.

Regarding considerations avove exressed, there certainly are systems in existence where numbers greater that nine are represented by single characters, e.g. the hexadecimal numbering system where we have A for 10 through F for 15. But this is something not from 15th century or older.

A dedicated symbol for zero, as to my knowledge, was not used back then in Europe, although in India it was used from the end of the first millennium AD. However, it is indeed strange to use zero as the first position in numbering. Nowadays, this approach is commonly used e.g. in programming, but, again, that's not something from the Renaissance era or earlier.

Last, I agree that the number of characters in 17. However lucrative it is to consider it 18. There are several instances in the VMS where the number of objects is not, so to say, what one would like it to be. The obvious exception is the "Voynich moons" diagram, where one would expect 12 moons, and they are twelve indeed.