Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[ReneZ]

Koen: in principle, yes.


However, with longer words the values can also be small if these words follow a clear structure.
This is the case with the Voynich MS and also with the Roman numerals.
Note that the average word length for the 'Roman numerals' version of the text is considerably longer than the original, but the asymptotic value of the distance is lower.


The purpose of this exercise was not to create a model for the Voynich MS text. It was jut to show two things:

- the same text can have very different behaviour depending on how words are defined
- it is possible for a meaningful text to show a correlation between edit distance and vertical distance in the text