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Final report 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?
Andrew Turnbull, Denley Bihari, 2009. University of Adelaide, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering honours project (supervisors Derek Abbott, Matthew Berryman).
Letter-frequency comparison with eight languages; random-letter samples from 37 sober and 18 intoxicated volunteers; first- and second-order Markov scoring of the initialism hypothesis (English best); Playfair, Vigenère and one-time-pad tests with Bible and Rubaiyat keys (negative); pattern search against a word list.
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Turnbull, A., & Bihari, D. (2009). Final report 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?. University of Adelaide, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering honours project (supervisors Derek Abbott, Matthew Berryman). https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/Final_report_2009:_Who_killed_the_Somerton_man%3F
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Turnbull, Andrew and Denley Bihari. “Final report 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?.” University of Adelaide, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering honours project (supervisors Derek Abbott, Matthew Berryman) (2009).