What I’d also like to add are the bigrams that span word boundaries—along with their frequencies.
(Note: Since I split “aiin” into “ai” and “in” and treat “in” as a fixed unit—and do the same with “qo”—the bigram ‘nq’ will be represented as “inqo.” This is just for better readability!)
What is really interesting, but of course fits the patterns shown above: With just 30 of these bigrams, 80 percent of all space bigrams can be represented.
If you look at the distribution, it could be highly dangerous to ignore these bigrams; after all, there are over 32,000 (!) of them. In my opinion, ignoring them:
1. could explain a great many of the failed attempts to decrypt VMS.
2. could have massively influenced or even distorted so many statistics.
But, of course, I don’t know if they are really relevant. In any case, I will continue working with this level.
The list of bigrams.
(Note: Since I split “aiin” into “ai” and “in” and treat “in” as a fixed unit—and do the same with “qo”—the bigram ‘nq’ will be represented as “inqo.” This is just for better readability!)
What is really interesting, but of course fits the patterns shown above: With just 30 of these bigrams, 80 percent of all space bigrams can be represented.
If you look at the distribution, it could be highly dangerous to ignore these bigrams; after all, there are over 32,000 (!) of them. In my opinion, ignoring them:
1. could explain a great many of the failed attempts to decrypt VMS.
2. could have massively influenced or even distorted so many statistics.
But, of course, I don’t know if they are really relevant. In any case, I will continue working with this level.
The list of bigrams.