Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript

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  • Torsten Timm
چکیده

The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval book written in an unknown script. This paper studies the distribution of similarly spelled words in the Voynich Manuscript. It shows that the distribution of words within the manuscript is not compatible with natural languages.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1601.07435  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016