[Cryptography] Voynich Manuscript

[Grant Schultz]

On 1/22/2019 11:00 AM,Peter Gutmann wrote,
 >I showed it to a psychologist and asked "which type of mental health 
disorder could the creator of this work have?".

If the manuscript was indeed the product of someone with a mental 
disorder, it is interesting that the characters/words seem to share the 
statistical properties of known languages:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Courses/CS5761-SPR04/Projects/rajk0007.pdf

A follow-up question might be whether schizophrenics (etc.) typically 
produce texts that follow Zipf's law, etc., the way normal languages do. 
If their text is "flatter" or otherwise statistically distinct, that 
would count against this theory. (I'm not able with a quick google to 
find results of statistical analysis of the speech of such 
individuals.)  (But it's a very creative angle to take in any case!)

Grant Schultz

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