12-07-2026, 12:02 PM
Could you confirm or deny Torsten if I understand one thing correctly?
I won't get deep deep into statistics and will use a non-statistical language.
Layfield and Davies used "lexical similarity" method in attempt to restore original order of the pages.
This method may work well with a real text telling some continuous story.
Take Book of Genesis as example. First it is about Adam and Eve, then about Cain and Abel, then about Noah, then about Abraham etc. Each story has its own vocabulary, sets of words are introduced and then disappear.
In the story of Adam and Eve words like "garden", "fruit", "tree" or "serpent" will appear with bigger frequences. So you may recognize all pages telling this story
even if it is written in unknown language and unknown script.
On the other hand if you have some dictionary of plants, there won't be any progress of the plot. Each plant description is a separate story which can be placed in any order.
I believe that's what Layfield and Davies claim - their results show that there is no story progression in herbal section which seams reasonable.
But you mention BAAFU - bifolio as a functional unit.
Is it true that 4 plants appearing on a single bifolio share the same vocabulary that they don't share with other plants from another bifolios?
This would be really hard to explain if the text was a natural language.
Are there any more articles about BAAFU?
I won't get deep deep into statistics and will use a non-statistical language.
Layfield and Davies used "lexical similarity" method in attempt to restore original order of the pages.
This method may work well with a real text telling some continuous story.
Take Book of Genesis as example. First it is about Adam and Eve, then about Cain and Abel, then about Noah, then about Abraham etc. Each story has its own vocabulary, sets of words are introduced and then disappear.
In the story of Adam and Eve words like "garden", "fruit", "tree" or "serpent" will appear with bigger frequences. So you may recognize all pages telling this story
even if it is written in unknown language and unknown script.
On the other hand if you have some dictionary of plants, there won't be any progress of the plot. Each plant description is a separate story which can be placed in any order.
I believe that's what Layfield and Davies claim - their results show that there is no story progression in herbal section which seams reasonable.
But you mention BAAFU - bifolio as a functional unit.
Is it true that 4 plants appearing on a single bifolio share the same vocabulary that they don't share with other plants from another bifolios?
This would be really hard to explain if the text was a natural language.
Are there any more articles about BAAFU?
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