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super cool rabbithole actually, though you've probably already seen alpha60.de/research/scram since it's linked from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zairja?

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Zairja - Wikipedia

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specifically, these look a lot like peg systems (ludism.org/mentat/PegSyst) which, along with other arts of memory, we've mostly forgotten about but back then they were vibrant, greek numerals for example (the arabic version of which seems to be used here) were used in gematria

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a peg system that rhymes is a fairly natural extension and would attract much the same people as those who already serve as astrologers, clerks etc

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that is acknowledged in the document but only as a kind of aside, I suspect it's way more central (I'm halfway through, it may still come)

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this thing uses error correction!

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the most tantalizing bit is there appears to have been a way to dance this

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Is this some sort of precedent to whirling dervishes? In which case are they like disks of the enigma or something? 😂

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I wish, it would be so cool!

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Hope you have come across: twitter.com/tmcw/status/11 ?

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it's done. a visual enigma machine simulator: observablehq.com/@tmcw/enigma-m

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I have, and while we're at it

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it probably did encrypt one thing, namely the court astrologer's job

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