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- From: annan@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security
- Subject: Re: Letter Frequency
- Message-ID: <1992Oct16.160806.9588@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 15:08:06 GMT
- References: <1big1qINNrnq@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Oct15.140918.27296@emr1.emr.ca> <1992Oct15.145339.2020@fid.morgan.com> <1992Oct15.160846.146853@watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <1992Oct15.160846.146853@watson.ibm.com>, uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
- > Hi,
- > Letter frequencies for 50,000 letters:
- >
- > A - 3,683
- > B - 487
- > C - 1,534
- > D - 2,122
- > E - 6,498
- > F - 1,416
- > G - 819
- > H - 1,694
- > J - 82
-
- ..etc
-
- >
- > This is old (WWII) and computed for telegrams. "Literary" plaintext
- > might differ...
-
- In particular, it might include the letter "i".
-
- I think the sequence goes etaoinshrdlu... but I'm not sure. Somebody else's
- dictionary count seemed to disagree with this. Try looking at any simple codes
- and cyphers book.
-
- --
- James Annan.
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