Some examples of frequency of pictograms.
These two tables show the most common final symbols on
side "A":
a7,b8,d9,d0,a9 *
a7,c3,d5,a6,a2 *
a7,e0,c2,b2,a2 *
a7,e5 *
a7,e5,a7 *
a7,e5,c9 *
d5,a7,e5,c7 *
d5,b8,a7 *
d5,c0,c4,c4,c9 *
d5,e0,c4,a7 *
Three tables showing next to last symbols most often occurring
(a7, b8, c3 - each occurring 4 times on side "A"):
a8,a7,d6,c9 *
a8,a7,d6,c9,c2 *
a8,a7,d6,c9,c2 *
d5,a7,e5,c7 *
d5,b8,a7 *
c4,b8,c3,a7 *
e3,b8,c3,b6 *
a7,b8,d9,d0,a9 *
c5,c3,d0,d4 *
c5,c3,d4,c7 *
a7,c3,d5,a6,a2 *
d6,c3,d7,a2 *
When compared to the frequency of last symbols on side "B",
a different pattern emerges, including the repition of "words" and
"phrases". Below is a table of frequencies listed by
final pictograms.
a1,c8 *
a1,c8 *
a1,d7 *
a1,d7,b2,a2 *
a7,e0,e1,a1 *
a7,e5,c9 *
b1,d9 *
b2,a7,e5,c7 *
b2,c6,d1 *
b2,e0,c4 *
b7,b8,a6,b2,a2,a8,e4,c7 *
b8,a1,d7,b2,a2 *
b8,c3,d7,c5,c7,a2 *
b8,c3,d7,c5,c7,a2 *
b9,b7,b8,a6 *
c1,d7,d5,c7,c7,b2,a2 *
c1,d7,d5,c7,c7,b2,a2 *
c3,d3 *
c6,d1,b2,a2 *
c6,d1,b2,a2 *
c6,d1,b2,a2 *
c7,b8,d2,b4,c7,b2,a2 *
d3,e0,a4,b2,a2 *
d4,e4,d4 *
d5,b9,e1,b2,a2 *
d5,c6,d1 *
d5,d7,c3 *
d8,a3,d9 *
d8,a3,d9 *
d8,c3,d2,b2,a2 *
These are some immediate observations that can be made by converting
the pictograms into digital symbols which can be sorted and compared
by programming. Other observations are made from the pictograms as
pictures. For example in word 13 there are two images for houses: is
this a doubling of a sylable or are all of the symbols words and in
this case "two houses" might mean "city" to suggest
some possibilities. In any case, working on the meaning of the disk
offers many oportunities to harmonize the current study of computer
science and linguistics and the ancient invention of writing itself.
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