Editing Final Report/Thesis 2018 (section)

===Previous Studies/Related Work===
==== Australian Department of Defence ====
In 1978, a request was sent by journalist Stuart Littlemore to the Department of Defence cryptographers to analyse the code. Unfortunately, the cryptographers were unable to crack the code, as they could not provide a satisfactory answer. It was stated that the code had “insufficient symbols” or a “disturbed mind” generated the meaningless code [8].

==== The University of Adelaide project groups ====
There have been several Honours project groups at the University of Adelaide that have undertaken this project. The previous work the project groups have done include: 
* Letter frequency analysis in different languages.
* Initial letter and sentence letter probabilities.
* The likelihood of the code being an initialism of a poem.
* Different cypher techniques.
* The design and implementation of a web crawler.
* 3D generated reconstruction bust of the Somerton Man.
Main conclusions that these project groups have come to are:
* It is unlikely that the mysterious code is created randomly.
* There is strong evidence to believe the mysterious code is most likely to be in English.
* It is not likely that the mysterious code are initialisms extracted from poems.
* The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was not used as a straight substitution one-time pad for encryption.
* The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was not created as a one-time pad for the mysterious code.
With these conclusions, this project will look into further detail of what the Mysterious Code is [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15].

==== Mass Spectrometer Pervious Work  ====
Previous years have also done study with Mass Spectrometer. The 2013 project group had some of Somerton Mans hair and plotted the different elements in the hair comparing with controlled samples. Analysis was conducted on different elements between the two samples. This was done using a glass slide, which have impurities in it [13]. In the 2016 project group, they recreated the analysis using a quartz slide, which does not have impurities. They concluded that Somerton Mans had some abnormally high readings, of some elements, one of which is strontium [15]. In this project, the strontium level will be looked in higher detail and this will be used to indicate how long the Somerton Man was in Adelaide before his death.