21-03-2016, 02:24 PM
(20-03-2016, 02:42 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Words similar to each other are not common enough in your text. This is the same as to say that the entropy values are not low enough. The values for your sample text are H0=4.52 H1=4.07 H2=2.67 (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for the entropy values for the VMS).
The text given by Davidsch is a bit shortish to compute a reliable h2, but I can't say what would be a good minimum length.
The problem is that many low-frequency character pairs appear either 0 or 1 times.
Still, both h1 and h2 are way higher than the Voynich MS (cf. values of Bennett: 3.66 and 2.22), for a similar character set size.
However, I consider this type of exercise very useful.

