Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video]
by nneonneo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:54AM
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It's clear that the author of the pieces of paper knew several words to be incorrect: "lisstd" (should be "linnet"), "piped" (should be "biped") and "meraccous" (should be "meracious") have little x's under them (the cross under "piped" is specifically under the first "p"); while "tertal" (should be tergal), "palm" (should be "bank"), and "dsrch" (should be "duck") are all underlined.
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Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video]
by e28eta on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:58PM
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Maybe they looked into it and found it wasn’t super relevant nor interesting, but while reading the paper I found myself wondering about the “edit distances” in those typos.
Ex: ‘e’ is dot, ‘t’ is dash; making a /t/e/ substitution seem very plausible, and my hypothesis is that including that extra layer of info would be interesting. I didn’t go through all the others, and would also be willing to believe it’s a dead end.