25-08-2026, 10:10 AM
(24-08-2026, 08:20 PM)Dunsel wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The ledger also does not generate only the attested lexicon. Its transitions can be recombined into unattested words. So it is not simply an automaton that memorizes the finite set of words it was built from. ... I am also not sure how you concluded that it is acyclic after saying you had not looked at it in detail. In the ledger, whenever a glyph that can begin a word appears inside a word, the positional count begins again from that glyph.
Apologies for misunderstanding the nature of your ledger.
But if the ledger has cycles, it accepts an infinite set of word types, no? So you have a separate limit on the length of the words? Or you generate text without spaces, and insert spaces by a separate method?
Does your ledger accept words with two gallows, or with an EVA [dlrs] between two benches {ch,sh}?
Quote:The ledger was not built from the whole Voynich lexicon and then tested against the same lexicon. Of course that would prove nothing. It was built from Scribe 1 core material, frozen, and then tested on core material from Scribes 2–5.
Ok. But I don't think there was ever a question of whether the hypothetical five scribes used different vocabularies. The claim was that there were only two "languages", and Herbal was divided among them.
It would make more sense to investigate vocabulary sharing among the sections, treating Herbal-A and Herbal-B as two sections. It is expected that there will be differences in vocabulary due to different subject matters.
Quote:It accepted 89.3% of [scribes 2-5] tokens and 77.6% of their types.
Those numbers seem rather low. But low numbers are expected because of the small size of scribe-1 sample and the variety of topics.