12-08-2021, 01:55 AM
(11-08-2021, 10:24 PM)byatan wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.How the wheels would actually be used is is something that interests me, both in terms of dealing with null wheels / spaces and possibilities of creating something beyond simply a vocabulary.
Yes, indeed - it's interesting to speculate. Suppose there were nine wheels, and each wheel is used when making a word 50% of the time: that would produce word lengths that match the distribution we see in the VMS, i.e. binomial of 9. It would also suggest, if the gallows glyphs took up one of the wheels, that words containing a gallows glyph would occur about 50% of the time ... which is approximately the case. But how would the nine wheels actually be used to encipher plaintext words? Do the rarer VMS words with more than one gallows mean that the wheels were traversed more than once?