Structural analysis of Voynich Manuscript reveals features of natural language
Without assuming anything about meaning or trying to decode the mysterious 15th-century Voynich Manuscript, Brian Grant wrote software that analyzed the structure of its inscrutable text to see if it corresponded to what one would expect to find in natural language. "It kinda did," writes Grant.
This project was built as a way to le…
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