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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: Letter Frequency
- Message-ID: <1992Oct15.145339.2020@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <1big1qINNrnq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Oct15.140918.27296@emr1.emr.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:53:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct15.140918.27296@emr1.emr.ca> nyelle@ccrs.emr.ca
- (Norman Yelle) writes:
- >In article <1big1qINNrnq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >>I'm in dire need of a letter frequency chart for the English language. I
- >>remember as a kid reading books on basic cryptanalysis and seeing these
- >>charts of the most frequently used letter (like "E" is most often used,
- >>then "S" or "R" or something, etc).
-
- >If you have an on-line copy of the dictionnary, then you can do the
- >following:
- >
- > grep -i e /usr/dict/words | wc
- >
- >... to find how many words contain the letter 'e'. You can do this for all
- >26 letters. This is the results I got with a dictionary of 25144 words:
-
- However, that is _not_ what was asked for.
-
- Exercise for the reader: Identify two errors in the methodology.
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
-