y Joachim von zur Gathen<\/span>. For a basic introduction, however, you can look through the VMS and see that the above patterns are common to the text as a whole\u2014glyph-groups tend to repeat, and the same glyph-groups end up in the same positions much of the time, with variation in letter-position being very constrained, all of which tend to lower the entropy.<\/p>\nDoes this argue against the VMS being natural language?<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
But that’s a subject for another blog.<\/p>\n
J.K. Petersen<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a9 Copyright 2016 J.K. Petersen, All Rights Reserved<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been trying to find a way to introduce the concept of entropy without loading it full of mathematical formulas. The word “entropy” is often invoked when comparing the quantity, frequency, and position of the VMS glyphs, which is easier to describe in numbers than in words. After some consideration, I decided that at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[142,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voynichportal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}