[Article] Harvard physicist's take on the VMS

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we find no dependence between words beyond the coupling of adjacent word edges

The absence of coupling between words at any distance other than 1 (weak at 1) even if spaces are not spaces and words are not words, should be a problem for any natural language theorist (unless the cipher is heavily homophonic or otherwise allows many different ciphertexts of the same plaintext) but they happily ignore it. IIRC, it was first noticed by Mark Fincher in hisYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. article.