Editing Final Report 2011 (section)

===Concept===
An analysis of the text in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was conducted to investigate if the code had been derived directly from the collection of poems within this book. Three different investigative directions were followed in a statistical analysis of each poem’s structure. 
The results from this preliminary analysis were used to decide if a subsequent cipher investigation was required in 2011.

One of three conclusions reached in the 2009 honours project identified that the letters in the code are consistent with an English initialism. In acknowledgement of the connection between the code and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, three hypotheses were derived to statistically investigate initialisms within this book. The cipher investigation component of the 2011 project was initiated with this analysis, as in accordance with the project objectives stipulated above, the results determined if a cryptologic cipher investigation was actually necessary.

The three hypotheses that were considered: