Hi Todd,
I take it that you accept in principle my draft protocol for a 'bottom
line' verdict on your hypothesis.
Todd S. Greene wrote:
> Can I say that any particular "letter" is supposed to have the same
> value always?
>
> Or can any particular "letter" have different values according to
> various contextual considerations?
>
> If the latter, I will need to have the "contextual considerations"
> specified.
I have obviously confused the issue by throwing in the sum of the
ordinal values of the letters of "chokmah" - "wisdom". This was done to
reveal the uniqueness of the word's 37/73 feature - and was a special
case. To answer your question, therefore, if you were to find a
particular word of special significance in the text under examination,
and it had such related numerical features as "chokmah", then by all
means consider this a 'plus'. In general, however, a particular method
of decoding, consistently applied, is the order of the day.
Regarding your actual coding in C++, Iain has kindly offered help in
respect of providing some of the essential subroutines (eg for
factorisation).
With best wishes,
Vernon
http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/protodd.htm
>
> I'm going to start thinking about this in logical form for the purpose
> of writing up the code. I'll confess that I'm not a GUI kind of programmer,
> and that what I'll be writing will be a command line executable. However,
> I will code it in such a way that various parameters can be specified,
> and values altered at will, but the user simply typing the values into a
> text file which will then be the parameter values used by the console
> application program when it is run. (For Windows programmers, this text
> file would be an INI type of file.)
>
> I'm not sure yet how to specify "terminators." I'm thinking of
> terminators as something that designates the end of the sequence of
> characters that are being used to calculate a value. Of course, the
> text that is fed into the program can be modified at will by the user
> for the purpose of adding in an arbitrarily chosen character designated
> as a terminator, such as, say, a tilde character. The program could
> then just be coded in such a way as to produce values of each of the
> character sequences between each terminator.
>
> To make things simpler (for coding), other alphabets could simple be
> "mapped" to the English alphabet (ASCII characters) in some arbitrary
> fashion, and so the user would still specify values for English letters
> in a table used in the configuration file, but the letters in this case
> would not really correspond to English letters for English words but
> would correspond to whatever non-English letter they are "standing in"
> for. Of course, whatever mapping like this is used must also be applied
> to the text that is to be fed into the program. (I've never coded for
> Unicode and anything outside of business data processing applications
> right in the U.S., so I've never had to think about considerations of
> dealing with non-English languages and text. Perhaps there is a simpler
> way of doing this that I just don't happen to know anything about.)
>
> These are just some of my initial thoughts as I start thinking about
> coding this.
>
> Of course, as I stated before, all code I write would be open, and
> released to public domain. And I'm not going to try to figure out the
> specific calculation logic. That's the job of you and others who are
> delving into it. My job is simply to determine from you what the
> logic is specifically enough for me to code it.
>
> Regards,
> Todd S. Greene
> tgreene@usxchange.net
>
> ###### Vernon Jenkins, 7/9/01 7:56 PM ######
> Hi Todd,
>
> I have set up a page which specifically addresses your proposal. Let me
> know what you think, and whether you wish to proceed.
>
> Here is the URL: http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/protodd.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Vernon
>
> Todd S. Greene wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Vernon.
> >
> > Tell you what. I will meet you halfway. Professionally, I'm a computer
> > programmer, and my language of choice is C++. If you will draw up the
> > algorithm in logical form and present it to me, I will write the C++
> > code for it (going for "compatible code" that can be compiled on
> > platforms other than just Win32 platforms) and offer this up for people
> > to compile and run on their own systems. They can then run all kinds of
> > texts through the algorithm and then we will know what the results are
> > of this algorithm.
> >
> > Then we won't have to talk about unverified hypothetical probabilities.
> > We'll be talking about actual cases and actual results, and there won't
> > be any possibility of the "shell game" principle.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Todd S. Greene
> > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/7755/
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