lurker > 03-01-2021, 10:33 PM
Quote:In this article, we employ simple descriptive methods in order to explore the peculiar behavior of the symbols in the Voynich Manuscript. Such analysis reveals a group of symbols which are further analyzed for the possibility of being compounds (or ligatures), using a specifically developed method. The results suggest the possibility that the alphabet of the manuscript is a lot smaller, and steganographic type of encoding is proposed to explain many of the already known and newly revealed properties.
MarcoP > 04-01-2021, 12:11 PM
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thanks to the carbon-dating method, an approximate date of its creation has been established: 1405—1435 (Zandbergen 2016).
Quote:Before we step into the analysis, first we formalize preprocessing of the Takeshi Takahashi’s transliteration (Takahashi 1999) of the Voynich Manuscript, which we used for the analysis and which we found to be the most thoroughI would like to know why they think that Takahashi's transliteration is better than Zanbergen and Landini's. ZL adds the text on the Rosettes diagram and the difference between certain and uncertain spaces.
Quote:the word “hello” could be rewritten into 27×27×27×27×27=27^5=14,348,907 variants
Quote:...the digit substitutes are picked arbitrarily by coders’ will. This may explain the observed autocorrelations of all the symbols and repeated words. First, the autocorrelations might be a consequence of a habit of picking specific substitutes for single digits or for larger blocks – like letters or words: picking the substitutes randomly each time is mentally exhausting, building a habit accelerates the coding work. Once such habit is established, it boosts the frequency of the substitute symbols locally. Such habits may also naturally fade off as the coder notices the repetition and builds up new habits. Such habits may also explain the proposed languages A and B, as the two main coders could encode the text by their own habits before the text was rewritten by individual scribers (Currier 1976).
Quote:Another interesting property of this code is its fragility: misreading just one symbol shifts the whole code, making the result of the text unreadable (until hitting new line, paragraph, or any resetting sequence – which may be related to Currier’s statement that a voynichese line might be a functional entity (1976: 23) – or until making another mistake repairing the reading frame). In combination with the probable fact that we do not read the Voynich symbols right, we may easily fail to read the code even when knowing it is present.
Vladimir > 11-01-2021, 08:48 PM
a ... 111, b ... 112, c ... 113, d ... 121, e ... 122, f ... 123, g ... 131, h ... 132, i ... 133, j ... 211, k ... 212, l ... 213,
m ... 221, n ... 222, o ... 223, p ... 231, q ... 232, r ... 233, s ... 311, t ... 312, u ... 313, v ... 321, w ... 322, x ... 323,
y ... 331, z ... 332
1 could be substituted for any of the: "A, E, I"
2 could be substituted for any of the: "Q, O, Z"
3 could be substituted for any of the: "M, R, K"
MarcoP > 11-01-2021, 10:12 PM
Vladimir > 11-01-2021, 11:40 PM