ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT
CANNOT BE DECIPHERED
G'day folks,
The Voynich manuscript is one of the
biggest riddles in the entire world, and has remained unsolved for
centuries.
But what is truly amazing about this manuscript is its content.
It is written in a script indecipherable by any living soul, despite
basically using the Latin alphabet. It also features illustrations of
what seem like fantastical plants (or are they?) on many of its pages.
Experts have tried to unravel the mystery of this script for centuries
without success. Thousands of cryptographers, including Allied code
breakers during both world wars, tried and failed. It is believed that
the number of characters used may be anywhere from 15 to 40.
Faced with repeated failure, some have
hypothesized that the manual just cannot be deciphered, and is actually a
very complex hoax. However, many point out that the text obeys numerous
laws of real language, including Zipf's Law, a statistical rule on the
frequency of words used in a natural language, where the most common
word appears twice as often as the next most common word, etc.
Now, let's look at this problematic manuscript.
Clancy's comment: Extraordinary, eh?
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