If there is anything involving codes and formulas it is a leftover from Roger Bacon.
With everybody claiming someone else wrote the books, from Shakespeare to Bacon to De’Vere and each camp attacking the other. No wonder outsiders get confusing signals on what to believe, if at anything at all. This is without interested parties actually spreading disinformation and ridicule.
If you step back the answer is obvious. Instead of arguing who wrote what, they should be looking at who edited and printed what and why. Just because someone hides something in code, it does not make it true. Just because someone finds a two hundred or a four hundred year old message, it does not have to be true.
There has been a lot in the media lately about hidden codes in the bible from the ancient prophets of Israel. Guess what, Francis Bacon and later William Rowley, “Translated” the King James Version of the Bible. Shakespeare Plays were printed after he was dead, who actually checked the words? William Godwin complained he was unduly pressurised to removed his introduction from his book “Caleb Williams”(The Way Things Are) in 1804. The Publication of the “Oera Linda” was held up and ridiculed by the establishment and when the author persevered, The publication of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” was brought forward two weeks to appear on the same day. In the resulting angry debates about “Species”, the “Oera Linda” was to fade in to obscurity and then be denounced as a fake. We may not have open censorship but who decides what is printed in books and the newspapers? Who decides what you learn, what you “know” and how much of it is really true?