MarcoP > 02-05-2021, 02:46 PM
ReneZ > 02-05-2021, 08:22 PM
lurker > 03-05-2021, 01:56 PM
ReneZ > 04-05-2021, 05:38 AM
(03-05-2021, 01:56 PM)lurker Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the wheels operate independently it would be easy to split the words into independent parts.
(03-05-2021, 01:56 PM)lurker Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Stolfi is splitting common Voynich words like daiin or qokeedy into two parts. Tiltman also splits Voynichese into two parts. Didn't that mean that we should assume the existence of only two wheels?
lurker > 04-05-2021, 09:08 AM
(04-05-2021, 05:38 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Rare combinations of the parts can correspond to rare words in the plain text.
(04-05-2021, 05:38 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As described in the paper, Tiltman's table generates only 240 different word types, out of ca. 9500 needed.
ReneZ > 04-05-2021, 10:32 AM
(04-05-2021, 09:08 AM)lurker Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My point was that we do not observe independent choices.
(04-05-2021, 05:38 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Rare combinations of the parts can correspond to rare words in the plain text.
If the wheels worked independently, every combination would have the same probability.
(04-05-2021, 09:08 AM)lurker Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(04-05-2021, 05:38 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As described in the paper, Tiltman's table generates only 240 different word types, out of ca. 9500 needed.
This just means that your hypothesis is inconsistent with Stolfi's and Tiltmann's observations.
Davidsch > 04-05-2021, 03:13 PM
Mark Knowles > 04-05-2021, 04:59 PM
bi3mw > 04-05-2021, 07:25 PM
farmerjohn > 04-05-2021, 08:54 PM
(04-05-2021, 04:59 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was thinking about what the 3 wheel spinning design reminded me of.
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Who knows, a medieval one armed bandit designed to generate meaningless text combinations?