What if Voynich plaintext is very heavily shortened?
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(13-03-2023, 10:52 AM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The idea of tokens formed by common groups of glyphs is a very natural one, however it can be observed that their frequency is extremely inconsistent, ranging from 0 to a lot, and therefore difficult to reconcile with a simple interpretation as a plaintext letter or group of letters.
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The frequency of the most common ending, -dy, drifts continuously from 0 to nearly 50% of words.
The analisys of bigrams is not enough as some of them are too common to be a plain letter, the next step is an analasys of trigrams involving those most common bigrams. The result is a set of n-gramms ( with n 1 to 3, maybe more in a few cases) of a size over 100, enough for a homophonic cipher, and enough to explain the inconsistent of frecuencies.
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RE: What if Voynich plaintext is very heavily shortened? - by Juan_Sali - 13-03-2023, 12:51 PM

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