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Article #1404Re: Letter Frequency
From: annan
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:08
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:08
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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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