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MethodsCryptanalysis (homophone merging)Sign-level collapse at matched vocabulary
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Sign-level collapse at matched vocabulary

Cryptanalysis (homophone merging)Version 1.0Licence MIT2 runsUsed on 1 mystery

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RunMysteryMeasuredResultAgainstDate
RUN-061VoynichMean excess of context-chosen over random merges at equal type count: repeated 4-grams / held-out bigram gainVoynich 23.053 / 0.022Latin 2.392 / 0.012 · mixed key word None / None · split 0.6 / 0.01422 Oct
RUN-055VoynichChange in word-order gain after merging 300 context-similar edit-1 pairs (random-pair merge; Latin)-0.224Random -0.058 · Latin context -0.48322 Oct

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