Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[RobGea]

@Torsten,

just a small question regarding this:

"when we look at the three most frequent words on each page, for more than half of the pages two of three will differ in only one detail" (Timm & Schinner 2020, p.3)

Perhaps i have made an error but i think the question is valid. When the frequency counts are equal , how are the top 3 then decided ?

for instance for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. i get a Top5 of : [('sho', 5), ('daiin', 4), ('chor', 2), ('sheo', 2), ('shody', 2)]

i ordered 'chor', 'sheo, 'shody' alphabetically as a secondary sort when frequencies were equal.

We do not know the alphabetic order of the VMS text

so here 'chor' is in the top 3 but 'sheo' also has the same fequency and if i use that i.e'sheo' as the 3rd word then sho and sheo have a levenshtein of 1 and then this folio matches the 2/3 words.

What did you use for a secondary sort ? and why ?

It's only a small methodological issue and really changes very little in the overarching scheme, I was just curious.

Thanks.