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Re: Entropy of other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Wed Feb 7 17:36:53 2007
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:44:30 -0600
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20070206030807.GE9873@subspacefield.org>
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:08:07PM -0600, Travis H. wrote:
> IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian heiroglyphs were actually syllabic,
> like Mesopotamian, so no fun there. Mayan, on the other hand, remains
> an enigma. I read not long ago that they also had a way of recording
> stories on bundles of knotted string, like the end of a mop.
Er, no, Mayan has been decoded:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mayan.htm
The knotted string system was an Inca writing system, IIRC.
Nico
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