30-06-2026, 08:03 PM
(30-06-2026, 06:17 PM)kostrubaty wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well if you look at the values the entropy is ~2 that means that characters are chosen from very limited pool, this means that given a character you only have 2 options to choose for the next one. They could have used some form of volvelle with cuotouts, but it can be just a simple flow diagram.
For a Markov of order 3 the Author would need a table with ~20x20 = 400 entries listing the alternatives for the next character given the previous 2, each with its probability.
Quote:As for indistinguishable -> It simply means that given 2 text excerpts one in voynichese one generated you're unable to tell which is which.
You mean: "a person who knows nothing about the Voynichese script would be unable to tell which is which".
By the same method and arguments, one could "show" that Hamlet could have been generated by a 3-Markov process. Just show the two texts, original and synthetic, to a Binumarien speaker who knows nothing of English (not even the alphabet) and see if he can tell which is which.
All the best, --stolfi