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Word-initial glyph layer: published Naibbe against each section

Naibbe-family hyper-simulation, section by section: Share of words beginning with the four commonest glyphs / entropy of word-initial glyphs (bits).

Descriptive: the cipher reproduces the concentrated word openings within |z| 2 in three of six sections; it is not where Naibbe fails, and removing first glyphs does not rescue the statistics it missestop-4 share manuscript vs Naibbe: stars B 0.644 vs 0.638, pharmaceutical A 0.661 vs 0.650, text B 0.616 vs 0.632, biological B 0.688 vs 0.637, herbal B 0.603 vs 0.644, herbal A 0.596 vs 0.642. Whole book: o 20 %, ch 16 %, q 16 %, d 9 % begin words (61 %); qo- 15 %0

Result

Run	Measured	Result	Against	Decision	Date
Run	Share of words beginning with the four commonest glyphs / entropy of word-initial glyphs (bits)	top-4 share manuscript vs Naibbe: stars B 0.644 vs 0.638, pharmaceutical A 0.661 vs 0.650, text B 0.616 vs 0.632, biological B 0.688 vs 0.637, herbal B 0.603 vs 0.644, herbal A 0.596 vs 0.642. Whole book: o 20 %, ch 16 %, q 16 %, d 9 % begin words (61 %); qo- 15 %	Plain Latin: top-4 share about 0.37, entropy 4.05 bits	Descriptive: the cipher reproduces the concentrated word openings within \|z\| 2 in three of six sections; it is not where Naibbe fails, and removing first glyphs does not rescue the statistics it misses

What it used and found

Naibbe-family hyper-simulation, section by section

Method

MTH

Latin genre texts

Dataset

DAT

Naibbe cipher tables and example plaintexts (greshko/naibbe-cipher, commit 719f2f4c)

Dataset

DAT

ZL3b transcription

Dataset

DAT

Latin or Italian under the Naibbe cipher

Answer it tests

ANS

Parameters

corpora = 10, variant = unit|K0|sh0|L0 (as published)

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Word-initial glyph layer: published Naibbe against each section [Run RUN0DC8YG3NV5XE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC8YG3NV5XE

@misc{mysteriesdept_run0dc8yg3nv5xe,
  title     = {Word-initial glyph layer: published Naibbe against each section},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Run, catalog key RUN0DC8YG3NV5XE},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/RUN0DC8YG3NV5XE}
}