[split] Verbose cipher?

[Koen G]

Isn't what Nick describes kind of the same as what I've been doing (Entropy Hunting posts)? I think we are kind of collectively moving on to the next problem now, which is spaces: if VM spaces are spaces and VM words are words, then these words are not generated by a verbose cipher.

Or, to put it differently, if VM words are words, they are too short to contain enough information.

Therefore, the most pressing question in the "verbose cipher" approach should now probably be: how to deal with spaces?



Regarding h1 and h2, I still think the best approach is to plot both on a scatter plot. There is agreement that h1 and h2 should both be tracked, but no indication whether subtracting or dividing them is really the best way to compare them. Essentially, we are looking to approach Voynichese's statistics, not their difference or proportion.