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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

Download pivot detector.2019.3 to see what happens to pivots after encoding with a homophonic key. The first sheet holds the 32 messages with two piv…

6 years ago
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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

Correction there are only 48 highlighted cells at periods 16, 32 and 48 versus 26 cells at periods 18, 36 and 54. It may have been the font. If I use …

6 years ago
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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

curiousBen wants to know more about the 340. I think that is a great idea, Ben. Doranchak made this video recently. I posted the talk here: viewtopi…

6 years ago
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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

I agree that breaking up the text into chunks of 340 cuts some of the pivots in half, and think that the takeaway is that poetry doesn’t necessarily c…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

And if you score bigram repeats at all periods based on symbol frequency, actually period 64 comes out a little higher than period 19. On average, wit…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

Here is what I was talking about. On the left, all period 16, 32 and 48 unigram repeats. There are 56 cells highlighted. On the right, period 18, 36 a…

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Re: Period 15 & 19 + nulls & skips hypothesis

I have been a strong proponent of route transposition for a few years now because of the evidence. If someone rides a bicycle through a puddle, and le…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

I just had a relatively simple idea. Tests have to show whether it proves to be true. Maybe I am completely wrong: – Take plain texts that contain a …

6 years ago
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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

Smokie, That is really cool. I downloaded your the excel file. Very neat! It’s frustrating that I haven’t had time to work on this. No worries, …

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

Actually just download the new version pivot detector 2019.2 it has a bonus sheet that shows all 32 of the 992 messages with two or more pivots so you…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

The poetry sheet has 448 messages and 126 pivots and the first 448 messages of Brave New World has 135 pivots. It doesn’t look like poetry causes more…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

I think I can write a formula that will identify the pivots and their locations without having to put the data into the grid format. Just paste all of…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

Ben: I hope you are still out there. I have the hard part mostly done, and can screen for pivots in any direction, one pivot pair top, two pivot pairs…

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Re: My thoughts on Pivots with an example.

I am going to put something together where you can look at up to 96 messages all on one sheet, this week.

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