Edit-Distance computational attack idea

[Davidsch]

So, for quite a while I've wondered why Torsten Timm's auto-copying hypothesis hasn't made a bigger splash in the Voynich community. 

Perhaps it would give the community more confidence in the auto-copying hypothesis if it could be statistically (not just subjectively) shown that the average edit distance between words in the VMS is anomalously low compared to other texts. 

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Well, I was working on the edit distance already and made You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where I try to show why the Edit Distance does not tell you anything. Perhaps it helps you towards what you are looking for.