A mathematical approach to double words, conditional logic and the missing pages

[Jorge_Stolfi]

In my transcription of the Starred Parags section ("Quire 20"), these are the string doublets and their frequencies, ignoring spaces and line breaks but not parag breaks: [...]

I re-counted the string doublets in the Starred Parags section after "correcting" m -> iin,  ir -> iin, hh -> he.  The only significant changes were aiinaiin rising from (4) to (29), and daiindaiin rising from (4) to (10).

The corrected file has N = 56817 EVA letters (including '?'). The string daiin occurs 415 times, and aiin occurs 1774 times (including 415 as part of daiin). By the same reasoning as before, the string doublet aiinaiin should occur ~55 times, so the actual count (29) is a bit too low. The doublet daiindaiin should occur only ~3 times, so the actual count (10) is somewhat notable.

All the best, --stolfi