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An explanation of low entropy?
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(17-03-2023, 11:32 AM)Arichichi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Could the fact that low entropy in Voynichese be explained by the idea that the VMS is a textual representation of a music sheet?

Maybe the conditional entropy would be comparable but that does not mean that the structure would be similar. In a typical medieval music score most (I don't know how many, maybe around 90%) notes are separated from the next by 0, 1 or 2 half-tones. So we could easily reconstruct the scale from bi-gram statistics.
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There are ways to record music differently than glyph = pitch. I don't know about these. There was a discussion in the comments section on Nick Pelling's blog:
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An explanation of low entropy? - by Arichichi - 17-03-2023, 11:32 AM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by nablator - 17-03-2023, 12:06 PM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by Arichichi - 17-03-2023, 12:58 PM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by Arichichi - 17-03-2023, 02:05 PM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by Koen G - 18-03-2023, 01:21 PM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by tavie - 18-03-2023, 02:50 PM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by Arichichi - 19-03-2023, 12:12 AM
RE: An explanation of low entropy? - by nablator - 22-03-2023, 01:40 PM

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