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About word length distribution
RE: About word length distribution

Rafal > 06-05-2025, 10:57 AM

Quote:Method is pretty simple. Throw 3 dices, sum the eyes and divide by two rounding up.

This method would never produce 1 letter words and yet they exist in VM.

Minimum total value of 3 dices is 3, divide by 2 is 1.5, round up is 2.
RE: About word length distribution

Koen G > 06-05-2025, 11:10 AM

So you're saying something like this?

1) encode source text verbosely (I'll say, any process that makes the cyphertext longer than the plaintext)
2) write this down separately
3) take dice or coins and do stuff with them to determine where spaces are inserted
4) write the line with these spaces, generated by chance, in the MS

How many spaces does the MS have? Like 20,000?
RE: About word length distribution

MarcoP > 06-05-2025, 12:44 PM

This implies no correlation between characters and spaces, so (since this correlation is quite strong in the actual manuscript) there must be a further step to alter characters to next-to-space shapes.

Eg y.q must correspond to something entirely different, when the dice roll no space.

This dice rolling idea is as high entropy as it gets, not really close to what is observed.
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