frequency analysis

[wacouta]

I had believed that an actual DOI was used with numbers possibly written on the words but I don't think that is the case anymore.
I used the numbers from the book "The six unsolved ciphers" as my source and tried to figure out the frequency of the digits ie for number 147 I counted 1,4,and7. The lines of numbers have 10 to 12 on average.
For Beale code #1, there was 47 lines for#2, 68 (Ideleted the half line at the end) and for #3, 56 lines. If a line was missing a digit , I counted a one.

#1 #2 #3
0 4 2 7
1, - 1 -
2, 2 3 -
3, - 2 1
4, 3 9 3
5, 7 4 10
6, 2 9 2
7, 9 8 5
8, - 5 -
9, 8 33 1

I guess that the most striking thing is that the solved cipher has almost every other line missing a 9. It's almost like number substitution instead of letter substitution (?)

 

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[masterpoe]

I had believed that an actual DOI was used with numbers possibly written on the words but I don't think that is the case anymore.
I used the numbers from the book "The six unsolved ciphers" as my source and tried to figure out the frequency of the digits ie for number 147 I counted 1,4,and7. The lines of numbers have 10 to 12 on average.
For Beale code #1, there was 47 lines for#2, 68 (Ideleted the half line at the end) and for #3, 56 lines. If a line was missing a digit , I counted a one.

#1 #2 #3
0 4 2 7
1, - 1 -
2, 2 3 -
3, - 2 1
4, 3 9 3
5, 7 4 10
6, 2 9 2
7, 9 8 5
8, - 5 -
9, 8 33 1

I guess that the most striking thing is that the solved cipher has almost every other line missing a 9. It's almost like number substitution instead of letter substitution (?)

Now your talking!