04-01-2026, 12:47 PM
(04-01-2026, 03:43 AM)Legit wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.All translation attempts so far that use Latin number glyphs as abbreviations have been invalidated. This is also why I am suggesting these number glyphs could be intended to be used as numbers.
One problem with this theory is that the frequencies of glyphs are quite non-uniform. If the text of the VMS is a bunch of numbers, then presumably each "word" would refer a word in a code book. But then the digits should have roughly equal frequencies. (Maybe someone has a sample of actual codebook-encrypted text that we could use to check this claim?)
Worse, the frequencies of glyph pairs are extremely different from those expected in a codebook-encrypted text. Like, in the file I have at hand, freq(qX) = 5405/85614 = 0.063 (where X means "any letter"), freq(Xo) = 16308/85614 = 0.19, but freq(qo) = 5297/85614 = 0.061 -- not 0.063 x 0.19 = 0.012. That would be like finding that, in some codebook-encrypted text, almost every digit "7" is followed by a "3".
All the best, --stolfi