Table 4. Description of ACF values distributions of all contained symbols for various language samples.
Language sample | Group | Mean | Median | SD | Q2.5% | Q97.5% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Voynich | Voy. | .073 | .068 | .044 | -.009 | .189 |
Voynich generator [20] | Voy. | .070 | .068 | .054 | -.031 | .193 |
Bengalian (Bible) | B | .044 | .037 | .047 | -.035 | .160 |
Korean (Bible; hangul) | C | .044 | .033 | .079 | -.087 | .235 |
Arabic (Bible) | A | .037 | .033 | .040 | -.035 | .129 |
Russian (fiction w/ passages in French) | D | .034 | .008 | .063 | -.030 | .217 |
Armenian (Bible) | A | .029 | .024 | .033 | -.028 | .116 |
Kannada (Bible) | B | .024 | .018 | .039 | -.045 | .111 |
Latin (Bible) | A | .024 | .018 | .031 | -.016 | .097 |
Chinese (mix traditional and new) | C | .023 | .012 | .078 | -.107 | .215 |
Hebrew (Bible) | A | .020 | .016 | .027 | -.020 | .072 |
Mokole (Bible) | A | .019 | .015 | .028 | -.033 | .088 |
Eskimo (Bible) | B | .016 | .011 | .035 | -.034 | .088 |
Rigveda (hymns in Devanagari) | D | .015 | .014 | .046 | -.076 | .121 |
Polish (Chess Manual) | A | .013 | .008 | .028 | -.033 | .081 |
Czech (fiction) | A | .011 | .009 | .025 | -.028 | .066 |
Greek (fiction) | A | .010 | .008 | .021 | -.030 | .051 |
Italian (Calabrian: Neapolitan, fiction) | A | .009 | .008 | .024 | -.034 | .065 |
English (fiction) | A | .007 | .007 | .026 | -.043 | .072 |
Italian (fiction) | A | .007 | .006 | .025 | -.040 | .069 |
Greek (Homer) | A | .006 | .005 | .021 | -.032 | .049 |
English (Encrypt: Playfare) | Enc. | .006 | .006 | .012 | -.017 | .035 |
Latin (fiction) | A | .004 | .002 | .022 | -.036 | .056 |
Latin (Virgil; 1st Century BCE) | A | .003 | .003 | .017 | -.029 | .038 |
English (Encrypt: Vigenere) | Enc. | .003 | .003 | .014 | -.024 | .032 |
English (Encrypt: Fialka) | Enc. | .000 | .000 | .012 | -.021 | .023 |
English (Encrypt: GPG) | Enc. | .000 | .000 | .011 | -.022 | .022 |
Text samples also includes Voynich Manuscript, its imitation by Timm and Schinner [20] software, texts encrypted by various cryptographic algorithms (demanding or not a source of entropy). The purpose of sample “group” is to simplify the perception of the plots, the groups are assigned manually to highlight potential clusters.