Some important new statistical findings

Prescott H. Currier, 1976. New Research on the Voynich Manuscript: Proceedings of a Seminar, 30 November 1976.

Prescott Currier's paper to the 1976 NSA seminar on the manuscript, reporting that the text falls into two statistical 'languages', A and B, that go with different hands, and that the line behaves as a unit.

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What it's used for here

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Cite it

Currier, P. H. (1976). Some important new statistical findings. New Research on the Voynich Manuscript: Proceedings of a Seminar, 30 November 1976.

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Currier, Prescott H.. “Some important new statistical findings.” New Research on the Voynich Manuscript: Proceedings of a Seminar, 30 November 1976 (1976).