ReneZ > 14-12-2017, 09:50 AM
Anton > 14-12-2017, 01:54 PM
Anton > 14-12-2017, 04:14 PM
Torsten > 14-12-2017, 04:47 PM
(14-12-2017, 09:50 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Only very few people are fully aware of the implications of the statistics, of which the entropy is only one, but an important one.
It is exactly because of this that, for the last decades, people have been trying to translate the text by simple substitution (or something very similar), and come up with meaningless text.
This will probably keep going on.
ReneZ > 14-12-2017, 07:02 PM
Anton > 14-12-2017, 07:43 PM
Quote:I computed the single character entropy of all word-initial characters by simply counting the word-initial characters, and computing their frequency distribution.
this is a test message
Torsten > 16-12-2017, 01:18 AM
(14-12-2017, 07:02 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Torsten, I don't know, of course, from everybody whether they understand the implications of some statistics or not.
In addition, having the statistics is one thing, but drawing the right conclusions from them quite another.
What I do know, however, and this is from communicating with a large number of people, that many people do not understand. All the people who are still playing with simple substitution do not understand.
Now it is not a crime not to understand, but it is not right to say that the statistics are wrong, or that they don't count for 'Voynichese'.
Quote:Specifically for your approach, there is no conflict at all with the entropy values that are observed for the MS text (i.e. string of symbols).
Anton > 16-12-2017, 01:35 AM
Torsten > 16-12-2017, 10:32 PM
(16-12-2017, 01:35 AM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As a sidenote, at present no rules extracted or proposed do concern the gallows coverage. Neither it is accounted for in any statistical computation over the text.
Anton > 16-12-2017, 10:39 PM