Bit-level Geometry: A deterministic discovery of Voynichese building blocks

[ThomasCoon]

• 8-bit: 903,682 bits (~51.5% reduction)
  
• 16-bit: 723,282 bits (~61.2% reduction)
  
• 24-bit: 688,640 bits (~63.2% reduction) (winner)
  
• 32-bit: 782,379 bits (~57.9% reduction)
  

This is an intriguing result for me. 24-bit (3 characters) is the mathematical sweet spot which matches what Voynich researchers have long suspected. It suggests the text is built out of tight, highly constrained prefixes, roots and suffixes (e.g. "qok", "che", "dai").

Cheers!

If that's true, this will be a huge step forward in cracking Voynichese. People have suspected for years that the text is made up of bigrams or trigrams, but nobody has been able to figure out what the combinations are: for example, is "qo-" a block by itself, or should we include the gallows letter which follows qo- 80% of the time?

Thank you for your work, TheEnglishKiwi