02-03-2026, 01:22 PM
(02-03-2026, 01:11 AM)ThomasCoon wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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?
Again, the performance of a given compression algorithm is not evidence of anything.
If the goal is to figure out the cipher (if it exists) there are many alternatives to the (static) tokenization.
That trigrams are important is not new: you must include constraints at least at the trigram level if you want to generate good-looking pseudo-Voynichese: it handles LAAFU and preferences across word breaks nicely. The only visible problem with a third-order Markov chain program is that it generates too many long words so the word length distribution is not good.