An Essay on Entropy: what is it, and why is it so important?

[Koen G]

In your reply to tavie, you mention h1 and h2 forming a profile which is distinct for any given language. Having read Patrick Feaster’s work on the VMs, I’m inclined to take this out a step further and say that any kind of information has a unique profile of h0, h1, h2, and h1/h2 values.

When I said "language", I most certainly meant "text" Well, it's complicated, because both language and text type influence entropy statistics.

I like the possibility of Roman numerals or something similar being involved in Voynichese. If we were to test this, we would need the style of Roman numeral notation where they add a swoop at the end, because these behave a lot like [iin]. And these swoops would need to be transcribed as different characters. Probably subtractive notation is best avoided (so iiii instead of iv). We discussed this a little bit in this thread: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Then the question is: only roman numerals? How many glyphs can we get if we include variations? Is this enough to match Voynichese? It's an interesting question that I haven't studied yet.