(07-04-2019, 08:15 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-04-2019, 08:08 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was thinking about how a full set of numbers could be constructed from Voynich glyphs and it's not too hard to imagine one that's fairly rational.
I was thinking something like this as well. We're not used to the medieval way of writing 4 and 5, but we do pick up on the "8" and "9". To the medieval scribe's eye, it must have looked even more number-heavy than it does to us.
YES! Very much so.
The niggly part (the complication), is that there are quite a few different ways it could be resolved into numbers. What I posted above is just two of many possibilities. For example, r might be 5. They wrote five about six different ways. This one is cheating (you would have to mirror it, which is not necessary with the others), which is why I didn't include it with the first group, but it's another possibility.