[Article] The Voynich Cipher Disk

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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the questions Nablator.

Imagine a wheel with 4 disks and 68 segments. Only 34 segments are readable the others are upside down, so practically you must turn the disks around to read them. Doing this, the disks would move against each other and loose the settings!

Only 34 segments on top are used, something heavy is put on the lower side of the disks so they won’t move alone, but still can be changed. The lower side of the disks (the other 34) are perfect copies of the upper, so when you turn the disks the upper 34 segments are always seen in perfect sequence(as on a small 34 disk). You still have to incline your head towards the shoulders which would be annoying so the 3 inner wheels only use 17 segments (repeated 4 times to guaranty the function). Now this 3 times 17 segments can easily be read from -45 to +45 degrees.

The most frequent letters are on this 51 segments which are needed 87% of the time, only half of the 34 on the outer disk (6.5%) require to incline the head. 51 on the inner plus 34 on the outer (_oX) plus 34 on the same outer but alternate mode (_4oX) equals 119 usable segments (X=any gallows).

Ottoman has not only 33 letters. All letters have up to 4 different forms of writing which are needed as are the 10 digits, so the 119 segments will hold all different information.

All this can be SEEN on page 57v. 
If you take a closer look you see the Cipher disk before the code, say the original letter sequences are written in (a blank disk).

The single stem gallows are always read as the double stems (no Null). To hide them better one or more double stems are written as single stems in the line were the code had to be changed and this so far fooled everyone.

Everyone keep asking.

Thanks