davidjackson > 04-02-2018, 08:19 PM
Koen G > 04-02-2018, 09:27 PM
-JKP- > 04-02-2018, 10:24 PM
Emma May Smith > 04-02-2018, 10:30 PM
Torsten > 05-02-2018, 05:49 PM
Hubert Dale > 05-02-2018, 06:59 PM
(04-02-2018, 09:27 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Just thinking about it philosophically (i.e. without much knowledge of the statistics involved) I'd say that it's impossible to prove. The reason is that in this particular case the statements "it has no meaning" and "the meaning is unknown to us" have the same effect.
Let me think of an analogy. For example, you present me with a string of numbers, 22 15 25 14 9 3 8 0 14 9 14 10 1.
I could say "it's a random string of numbers". But I don't know whether this is true. Until I find a way to read the numbers in a way which makes sense, I have no way of proving whether the numbers are randomly chosen or not. I could only disprove it by pointing out what you encoded and how you did it.
davidjackson > 05-02-2018, 07:16 PM
Quote:But I do wonder whether software like CryptoCrack can do anything with this particular message, given the brevity and vocabulary?
Hubert Dale > 05-02-2018, 07:41 PM
(05-02-2018, 07:16 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:But I do wonder whether software like CryptoCrack can do anything with this particular message, given the brevity and vocabulary?
Counting on your fingers would break that particular Caeser's Cipher
Koen G > 05-02-2018, 07:44 PM
Torsten > 05-02-2018, 09:12 PM
(05-02-2018, 07:44 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why are 'chol', 'chor', 'shol' and 'chor' more frequent then 'chal', 'char', 'shar' and 'shal'? This could be so many things. These words appear somewhat similar. Maybe one vowel was simply more frequent in such words than the other. Or maybe it's variation in the transcription system. Arabic "a" can often be transcribed as "a" or "e". A scribe can use both but favor one over the other.
Quote:Torsten: many of those questions could be answered hypothetically within a linguistic framework.