06-01-2026, 02:17 PM
(06-01-2026, 02:08 PM)eggyk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Using method 3 from my post (which is quite strenuous obviously) there is only one 8 letter english word which fits the third word ACDEIRED from your text (ACQUIRED)
If I had a dictionary to hand that listed 8 letter words in that number system, it would have taken me a few moments to search and then transcribe back into plaintext. It would be surrounded by:
51896054 - Acquiral
51896098 - Acquired
51896099 - Acquiree
This means that it wouldn't be possible to "read" the book (as in, look at the page and convert the cipher into plaintext words in one's mind at a comfortable pace), the reader would have to decipher the text word by word using some external dictionary or by trial and error with a pencil and paper.
There is nothing wrong with this in principle, but my expectations of the cipher solution for a book is for it to be compatible with reading. Complex decoding schemes are good for short messages, I'm not sure they are practical for a volume (or collection) the size of the Voynich Manuscript. But these are just my preferences.