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Re: Voynich manuscript proven a hoax (yet again).
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Ellner)
Tue Apr 17 14:33:06 2007
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:02:42 -0700
From: Todd Ellner <ribbit@speakeasy.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <871wijhsu3.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Apparently the latest issue of Cryptologia will carry an article that
> has done yet another statistical analysis of the Voynich manuscript,
> and which claims that the manuscript's text statistics are consistent
> with it being a hoax.
>
> http://www.cs.keele.ac.uk/km/blog/?p=18
>
>
Not exactly news. The groundbreaking work was done on this a couple
years back. If I recall
correctly the team found that it was probably a variant on period
templated writing devices.
Now, if someone could make sense of the Codex Serafinianus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
that would be news...
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