questions to Torsten Timm about his paper

[Davidsch]

Additionally, I researched the VMS text with respect to the Edit Distance or Levenshtein distance, and some conclusions were drawn.

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"This little research shows that for different word lengths, where we do not know if the length transcribed and analyzed is a realistic word length, this technique is worthless."


Also as a follow up, improved method was found and applied, the Jaro Winkler distance. And made a brief blog page about the research and findings on that as well on

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"We must now conclude that the VMS is not a text with repeating words or fixed chapters with a repeating description of herbals of stars. Far from that, it seems that the VMS contains a text which has a layout similar that of the religious corpus that was examined.  It could be any other type of text, but the text does not follow a repeating pattern as can be expected from a herbal."