Mark Knowles > 11-04-2020, 11:23 PM
davidjackson > 12-04-2020, 12:23 AM
voynichbombe > 12-04-2020, 12:59 AM
RobGea > 12-04-2020, 01:26 AM
davidjackson > 12-04-2020, 02:32 AM
(12-04-2020, 01:26 AM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Actually computers have trouble with random as welll, they mostly use psuedorandom generators, though they may have improved these days.Yes, but only another computer would ever notice
bi3mw > 12-04-2020, 10:07 AM
Mark Knowles > 12-04-2020, 04:26 PM
(12-04-2020, 02:32 AM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(12-04-2020, 01:26 AM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Actually computers have trouble with random as welll, they mostly use psuedorandom generators, though they may have improved these days.Yes, but only another computer would ever notice
However, given that the Voynich corpus is not "random" in nature I'm not sure where this thread is going.
davidjackson > 12-04-2020, 05:37 PM
Mark Knowles > 12-04-2020, 05:57 PM
(12-04-2020, 05:37 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As I remember from when I attempted the test references above, it was quite difficult for me. Not that that means anything, many things are!
However, I think we need to think about the mindset of the times. How would a 15th century intelectual go about producing a hoax text? Would they? Would it even make sense for them to attempt it, to produce gibberish on the scale of the voynich?
-JKP- > 12-04-2020, 08:09 PM