Who inspired the DOI?

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Hello,
If you think my last post about TB using Latin has merit, then you should also know who inspired the DOI: Cicero.

Cicero wrote many treatise on government. Cicero writings are all in Latin and taught in the two high schools in 1800. Unfortunately, it is hard to find text versions of his works so they have to be entered by hand.

I attached the print screen of my Excel workbook I used to type by hand.

First, I would take a screenshot of the document page by page, copy them to Excel and size to my row height. I created formulas to do the couning. I added a hyphen detector to identify hyphens at the end of the row so I wouldn't double count it when working on the next row.

I then typed the Latin word from the document in the grid to the right. To save time i only typed the words necessary to reveal the message.

Cicero's treatise are similar to the DOI in the sense there are no headers, TOCs, Prefaces, intros, etc.; just words that are easy to number.

I should add that my worksheet automatically created the CSV file for my Beale decoder so I could look for a readable message.

 

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[chalkoutline]

Hello,
If you think my last post about TB using Latin has merit, then you should also know who inspired the DOI: Cicero.

Cicero wrote many treatise on government. Cicero writings are all in Latin and taught in the two high schools in 1800. Unfortunately, it is hard to find text versions of his works so they have to be entered by hand.

I attached the print screen of my Excel workbook I used to type by hand.

First, I would take a screenshot of the document page by page, copy them to Excel and size to my row height. I created formulas to do the couning. I added a hyphen detector to identify hyphens at the end of the row so I wouldn't double count it when working on the next row.

I then typed the Latin word from the document in the grid to the right. To save time i only typed the words necessary to reveal the message.

Cicero's treatise are similar to the DOI in the sense there are no headers, TOCs, Prefaces, intros, etc.; just words that are easy to number.

Here is how I came up with this theory.

If you read my post "why did you join the beale treasure hunt?" You already know that while looking for documents TB may have used, I found a sketch of face that looked like me (see my profilepicture). Next to the sketch was vertically written "Thomas " and I took that as a sign.

That book was a collection of works by Cicero in Latin.