Final Report 2011

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Introduction

History

The Code

The code found in the back of the Rubaiyat linked to the Somerton Man.

Structural and Statistical Investigation

Concept

Given the fact the code was found in the back of the book of poems, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, there remains suspicion that the code is somehow linked to the contents of the Rubaiyat. If this were the case, a cipher analysis may not even be necessary. This theory has been investigated by testing three hypotheses through statistically and structurally analysing the poems in the Rubaiyat.

Hypotheses

1. The code is an initialism of a poem in the Rubaiyat
   • Based on previous studies indicating an English initialism and the fact the code has four (un-crossed out) lines, with each poem being a quatrain (four line poem).
2. The code is related to the initial letters of each word, line or poem
   • Based on previous studies indicating an English initialism.
3. The code is generally related to text in the Rubaiyat
   • Based on the links between the Rubaiyat and the code.

Results of Tests

Table 1: Letters per Line in Rubaiyat Poems

Line	Mean	Std Dev	Max	Min
First	8.00	1.15	10	5
Second	7.69	1.20	10	5
Third	7.88	1.06	10	5
Fourth	7.87	1.31	10	5

Table 2: Letters per Line in Code

Line	Number of Letters
First	9
Second	11
Third	11
Fourth	13

See also

• Glossary
• Cipher Cross-off List
• Stage 1 Design Document 2011
• Stage 2 Progress Report 2011
• Final Seminar Recording 2011 Part 1
• Final Seminar Recording 2011 Part 2
• Final Seminar Recording 2011 Part 3

References and useful resources

• Final Report 2010
• Final report 2009: Who killed the Somerton man?
• Timeline of the Taman Shud Case
• The taman shud case
• Edward Fitzgerald's translation of رباعیات عمر خیام by عمر خیام
• Adelaide Uni Library e-book collection
• Project Gutenburg e-books
• Foreign language e-books
• UN Declaration of Human Rights - different languages
• Statistical debunking of the 'Bible code'
• One time pads
• Analysis of criminal codes and ciphers
• Code breaking in law enforcement: A 400-year history
• Evolutionary algorithm for decryption of monoalphabetic homophonic substitution ciphers encoded as constraint satisfaction problems

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